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oapen-20.500.12657-513862021-11-10T07:18:43Z Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro Colombia Colombian Culture Film studies Hispanic Latin America Latin American Literature Latin American media Latin American Violence Media studies Narcos bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTQ Colonialism & imperialism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general 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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2021-11-09T15:09:19Z 2021-11-09T15:09:19Z 2022 book ONIX_20211109_9781000450774_7 9781000450774 9781003195702 9780367459659 9781032080505 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51386 eng Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000450774.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003195702 10.4324/9781003195702 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000450774 9781003195702 9780367459659 9781032080505 Routledge 200 open access
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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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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