1st Edition
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943 Transmitting Nationhood
By Lauren Rea
Copyright 2013
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her study of key radio dramas broadcast from 1930 to 1943, Lauren Rea analyses the work of leading exponents of the genre against the wider backdrop of nation-building, intellectual movements and popular culture in Argentina. During the period that has come to be known as the infamous decade, radio serials drew on the Argentine literary canon, with writers such as Héctor Pedro Blomberg and José... Read more
Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943
Biography
Lauren Rea is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
’Lauren Rea’s discussion of three sets of radio serials offers an original and convincing perspective from which to review Argentina’s nation-building programme. Intelligently conceived and cogently argued, this is a work of the highest merit.' Evelyn Fishburn, University College London, UK 'This book significantly deepens our understanding of the way radio intersected with its local environment ... Argentine Serialised Radio Drama is a well-crafted, engaging, and valuable contribution to Latin American radio history ...' Hispanic American Historical Review 'Lauren Rea ... 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.' Journal of Latin American Studies 'Rea's work is a model of intelligent cultural studies and represents well the potential of Ashgate's recently inaugurated series on New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies
