Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930-1943

摘要

The scope of this study is both narrower and wider than is suggested by its title. It is narrower because it does not engage with the broader phenomenon of serialised radio drama during the infamous decade, but concentrates on three serials that, although highly successful in their days, do not reflect the full range of dramatic genres on the air. And rather than approaching these serials as broadcasts, it focuses primarily on their written content as provided in the surviving scripts. At the same time, this study goes well beyond radio drama in the 1930s and early 1940s. Lauren Rea, a literary scholar, subjects the three sets of texts to a narrative analysis that reaches back into time and deep into the nineteenth century. By means of a close reading of the scripts themselves and the literary and wider cultural traditions that informed them, she seeks to show that these programmes engaged in a long-standing and intricate debate about Argentine nationhood.