Huaso Romance as Neoliberal Reform in Sebastián Silva'sLa nana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Butte, Stephen M Butte (corresponding author), Stephen Buttes, Stephen M Buttes (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 345-362 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2014.958142 |
| OpenAlex | W2025838683 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
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 novels, and in particular the huaso romance narrative. Far from arguing that the film represents a nationalist or folkloric take on contemporary Chile, the essay asserts that Silva reconfigures the huaso romance to construct local solutions to the potential social conflicts generated by Chile's more complete integration into the world economic system. Following this line of argument, the essay asserts that Silva's film, like its criollista antecedents, produces a reformist political project that provides the grounds from which new social bonds can be developed to heal and stabilize the neoliberal economic system. In addition to a close reading of the film, the essay considers the basic characteristics of criollismo by examining Joaquín Edwards Bello's best-selling criollista novel La chica del Crillón (1935) as well as key details in Chilean history, politics, economy and culture
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Folklore · Humanities · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |