Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen：The Colombian Condition

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. Examining mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, or gritty travel narratives and films, this book offers 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, author, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin American violence for cultural consumption.