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The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture (en Inglés)
Toby Miller
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Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo
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Olga Lucia Sorzano
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Rutgers University Press
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The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture (en Inglés) - Miller, Toby ; Sabbagh Fajardo, Alfredo ; Lucia Sorzano, Olga
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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.