Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition

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Title

Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition

Subject

Humanities, Language & Literature

Description

This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to the role played by Colombia in cultural production across the continent where the illicit drug trade has made significant inroads. To this end, he identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin America’s violence for cultural consumption.

Creator

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

Source

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003195702/commodifying-violence-literature-screen-alejandro-herrero-olaizola?context=ubx&refId=9c800211-8562-4a79-947f-aff429303208

Publisher

Routledge

Date

19 October 2021

Contributor

Guruh Haris Raputra

Rights

Creative Commons

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003195702

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