Poverty and Antitheatricality - Form and Formlessness in Latin American Literature, Art, and Theory

Poverty and Antitheatricality critiques modern approaches to poverty that focus on its experience rather than its socioeconomic context. Stephen Buttes argues that these models paradoxically sustain poverty by portraying it as inevitable and necessary. Through new readings of Latin American art and literature, Buttes offers insights into poverty and the kind of problem it is.

Sommario

Introduction
1: Managing to Get By: Lizardi, Cantinflas, and the Problem of Horizontalism
2: Icons of the Everyday: Calculating Poverty in Pablo Neruda’s Odas elementales
3: The Afterlife of Mexico, 1968: Posthegemony and Its Antitheatrical Alternatives
4: Photography and Borges’s Landscapes of Poverty
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Info autore

STEPHEN BUTTES is an associate professor of Spanish at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is a coeditor of Pobreza y precariedad en el imaginario latinoamericano del siglo XXI.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Buttes
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781978844629
• ISBN: 978-1-978844-62-9
• Pagine: 200
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza