Stephen Buttes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5947771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Buttes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Buttes |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTES S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Infrastructure or Support
Infrastructure or Support?:Literature, Meaning and Autonomy in Latin America Stephen Buttes This essay will explore the arguments and stakes at the center of recent debates over the question of aesthetic autonomy as it relates to anti-neoliberal politics in Latin America. While many scholars have advocated the concept of "postautonomous literatures" and its focus on the experiences their "presence" creates, a number of scholars have questioned th…
Anti-Literature
Reviewed by: Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina by Adam Joseph Shellhorse Stephen Buttes Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 264 pp. Adam Joseph Shellhorse's Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina comprises six chapters with an…
From Paper to Celluloid and Back Again
This essay argues that our current understanding of the cinematic work by the pioneering Chilean film director Jorge Délano obscures a sophisticated interaction between politics, art and economics, one that reveals unexamined aspects of how the film industry developed in Chile. Most notably, it argues that Délano's illustrated political satire magazine Topaze was central to the development of early sound cinema in the country. Following Rielle Na…
Capital Fictions
Reviewed by: Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age by Ericka Beckman Stephen Buttes Ericka Beckman. Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN: 0816679207. $22.50 (paper). The central contention of Ericka Beckman’s book, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age, is that Latin American economies and societies between 1…
Huaso Romance as Neoliberal Reform in Sebastián Silva'sLa nana
Building on the work of recent critics, this essay asserts that the narrative of illness and recovery at the center of Sebastián Silva's film La nana (2009) can be understood as allegorically working through the contradictions between economy and culture in contemporary Chile. Diverging from these critics, however, the essay argues that the film operates its critique by mobilizing the narrative structures that characterized Chilean criollista nov…
Huaso Romance as Neoliberal Reform in Sebastián Silva'sLa nana
Building on the work of recent critics, this essay asserts that the narrative of illness and recovery at the center of Sebastián Silva's film La nana (2009) can be understood as allegorically working through the contradictions between economy and culture in contemporary Chile. Diverging from these critics, however, the essay argues that the film operates its critique by mobilizing the narrative structures that characterized Chilean criollista nov…
Huaso Romance as Neoliberal Reform in Sebastián Silva'sLa nana
Building on the work of recent critics, this essay asserts that the narrative of illness and recovery at the center of Sebastián Silva's film La nana (2009) can be understood as allegorically working through the contradictions between economy and culture in contemporary Chile. Diverging from these critics, however, the essay argues that the film operates its critique by mobilizing the narrative structures that characterized Chilean criollista nov…
Capital Fictions
Reviewed by: Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age by Ericka Beckman Stephen Buttes Ericka Beckman. Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 272 pp. ISBN: 0816679207. $22.50 (paper). The central contention of Ericka Beckman’s book, Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age, is that Latin American economies and societies between 1…
From Paper to Celluloid and Back Again
This essay argues that our current understanding of the cinematic work by the pioneering Chilean film director Jorge Délano obscures a sophisticated interaction between politics, art and economics, one that reveals unexamined aspects of how the film industry developed in Chile. Most notably, it argues that Délano's illustrated political satire magazine Topaze was central to the development of early sound cinema in the country. Following Rielle Na…
Anti-Literature
Reviewed by: Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina by Adam Joseph Shellhorse Stephen Buttes Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 264 pp. Adam Joseph Shellhorse's Anti-Literature: The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina comprises six chapters with an…
Infrastructure or Support
Infrastructure or Support?:Literature, Meaning and Autonomy in Latin America Stephen Buttes This essay will explore the arguments and stakes at the center of recent debates over the question of aesthetic autonomy as it relates to anti-neoliberal politics in Latin America. While many scholars have advocated the concept of "postautonomous literatures" and its focus on the experiences their "presence" creates, a number of scholars have questioned th…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Art history (2 works)