This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater
boom of the genero chico criollo in the context of Argentina's
modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays
mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes,
new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union
activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters
served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and
innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a
critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate
the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina's
purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative
performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities.
Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics,
popular culture, and performance in Argentina's modernization
period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of
popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that
would drive social and political struggles to this day.
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