Persistence of Violence

Colombian Popular Culture

Toby Miller

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

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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, "e;Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa"e; (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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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