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The Persistence of Violence : Colombian Popular Culture / Toby Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 14 b&w images, 7 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978817555
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.609861 23
LOC classification:
  • F2279
  • F2279
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence -- 1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM -- 2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE -- 3. "I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN" -- 4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence -- 1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM -- 2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE -- 3. "I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN" -- 4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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