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analytical approaches
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critical theory
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experiential poverty
form and formlessness
formlessness
historical sequence
inevitability of poverty
Latin American artists
Latin American authors
marginality
modernism
modernity
necessary poverty
political economy
political role
populist organization
poverty
Poverty and Antitheatricality
socialist organization
socioeconomic status
Stephen Buttes
transhistorical marginality
transhistorical presence
work of art
Product details
- ISBN 9781978844612
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Poverty and Antitheatricality argues that many major analytical approaches today misunderstand the problem of poverty by emphasizing its status as an experience. These experiential models transform poverty from a specific socioeconomic status lived in a particular historical sequence into a transhistorical presence of marginality that is not only inevitable but necessary. Embedded in capitalist, socialist, and populist forms of socioeconomic organization, these models paradoxically suggest that if we want to have a world free of poverty, we must always have the poor and their experience of formlessness. Taking up the paired terms-form and formlessness-Stephen Buttes demonstrates how they sustain not only debates about poverty and its political role within modernity but also the idea of the work of art within the history of modernism. Offering critiques of critical theory alongside new readings of both canonical and little-studied Latin American authors and artists, Poverty and Antitheatricality makes a compelling case that understanding the kind of problem the work of art is opens up overlooked but essential pathways to understanding poverty and the kind of problem it is.
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.
