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Erlick, June Carolyn - Gringa In Bogota

Gringa In Bogota : Living Colombia's Invisible War

By: Erlick, June Carolyn (Author). University of Texas Press. Published: 25/04/2010. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
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To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogota, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptions - outsiders' fears versus insiders' realities - drew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogota for a year's stay in 2005. She wanted to understand how the city she first came to love in 1975 has made such strides toward building a peaceful civil society in the midst of ongoing violence. The complex reality she found comes to life in this compelling memoir. Erlick creates her portrait of Bogota through a series of vivid vignettes that cover many aspects of city life. As an experienced journalist, she lets the things she observes lead her to larger conclusions. The courtesy of people on buses, the absence of packs of stray dogs and street trash, and the willingness of strangers to help her cross an overpass when vertigo overwhelms her all become signs of convivencia - the desire of Bogotanos to live together in harmony despite decades of war. But as Erlick settles further into city life, she finds that 'war in the city is invisible, but constantly present in subtle ways, almost like the constant mist that used to drip down from the Bogota skies so many years ago'. Shattering stereotypes with its lively reporting, "A Gringa in Bogota" is must-reading for going beyond the headlines about the drug war and bloody conflict.

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ISBN10/13: 0292722974/9780292722972
TITLE: Gringa in Bogota, A
CONTRIBUTORS: Erlick, June Carolyn (Author)
IMPRINT: University of Texas Press
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLICATION DATE: 25/04/2010
SUBJECT: Biography, Education / Reference, Literature, General Biography, Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature Texts
PAGES: 128
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
CONTENTS:

Foreword: A City on Display, by Herbert Tico Braun; Preface; Acknowledgments La Primera Ronda; My Gringa Accent; Life and Rules; Looking for Maria; View from My Window; Dreaming of Journalism; War and Peace; Life on Movie Row; Redprodepaz: Knitting Peace; Dogs; TransMilenio; Three Tall Buildings; Displaced; Time; Plaza de Bolivar; Horses and Other Animals; El Choco: Never to the Jungle; Artists: Beyond the Invisible Door; Dogs II; A City of Many Hues; Robberies; Random Acts of Kindness; Upstairs, Downstairs; Ciclovia; Bombs and Other Loud Noises; TransMilenio II; Theatre; Red, Yellow, and Blue; Disappeared; Good Friday: The Passion; Books; Gabo; Santa Marta: Listening to Students; The Strike; Remolinos; Abortion and Citizens' Rights; Catcalls and Unwelcome Whistles; Electing Alvaro; Jamundi; TransMilenio III; Truth and Reparations; Dreaming of Journalism II; CAFAM Epilogue