ABSTRACT
In Bajo la Santa Federacin, Blomberg and Viale Paz project their vision of ideal Argentine womanhood onto their romantic heroine, Mara del Carmen. Camila's story is the key for understanding the relationship between the representations of the Rosas regime in Bajo la Santa Federacin and in the work of the Historical Revisionists. Camila, Manuela, Amalia and Mara del Carmen represent models of nineteenth-century womanhood which the male radio writers and Revisionist intellectuals of the dcada infame present to the contemporary women in their audiences. Both the radio writers and the Revisionist intellectuals call upon the historical Camila O'Gorman and Manuela Rosas to consolidate their specific visions of Argentine national identity. In Glvez's version, Camila appears as a sacrificial figure who must die for the good of the nation and to save the morality of a generation of Argentine women.
