Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the historical evaluation of the Rosas regime in the radio serial. It focuses on the treatment of gender issues in Bajo la Santa Federacin. The book devotes to the analysis of Gonzlez Pulido's Chispazos de tradicin series. It analyses Gonzlez Pulido's identity as an inmigrante acriollado and examines the gauchesque content of his radio serials. The book focuses on Gonzlez Pulido's vision of the desirable contribution that the immigrant community and the nation's women should make to the nation-building project during the dcada infame. In 1889, at the very height of European immigration to Argentina, a Spanish theatre troupe arrived in Buenos Aires. Adriana Estill outlines, the antecedent of serialised radio drama in Latin America is the serialised melodrama of European literature.