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.