The Persistence of Violence Colombian Popular Culture

Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred-products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one - the ideal and the real - summed up in the idiomatic expression (not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there) 'Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa' [When you pass a law, you create a loophole]. Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence - and resistance to it - characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.

ISBN:	9781978817517
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Published date:	30 Jul 2020
DEWEY:	986.10635
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	336g
Height:	152mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	16mm

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