{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-violence-toby-miller-9781978817517","title":"The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture","description":"Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with \u003ci\u003eguerrilla\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toby Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978817517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978817517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Toby Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097116188927,"sku":"9781978817517","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-violence-toby-miller-9781978817517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}