The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978817525
• ISBN13: 9781978817524
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"