Introduction: the Colombian condition -- Narco-stories globalized: Pablo Escobar and excess consumption -- The Ingrid Betancourt story: memory in the times of mass media -- The travelogue boom: dark exoticism for global consumption -- Affective visuality: the cinema of conflict and reconciliation -- Epilogue: post-conflict Colombia?
Summary:
"Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, this book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
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