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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Miller, Toby,
• MitwirkendeR: Arroyave, Jesús,; Barrios, Marta Milena,; Lucia Sorzano, Olga,; Sabbagh Fajardo, Alfredo,; Tamayo-Duque, Anamaria,
• TeilnehmendeR: Barrios, Marta Milena.; Cabrera, Jesús Arroyave.; Duque, Anamaria Tamayo.; Fajardo, Alfredo Sabbagh.; Sorzano, Olga Lucia.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 14 b&w images, 7 tables
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978817555; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110690330
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978817555?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Toby Miller.

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.