Theatre and sport: figuration of popular bodies in Comoedia para todos and El Gráfico (1926-1933)

Abstract

This study posits that the magazines Comoedia para todos and El Gráfico (1926-1933) constituted an active component of the modernization process in which they were configured. Furthermore, it argues that these publications offer critical insights into the urban and social transformations of the period through a deliberate and selective engagement with the dialectic between tradition and avant-garde in the Rioplatense context. Considering sport and theater as the most popular cultural phenomena, this article aims to analyze the lexical and discursive constellations surrounding their representations. This analysis will then be placed in dialogue with the figuration of a specific Argentinian identity intrinsically linked to a contentious nation-building project. The investigation will proceed through the examination of some specific conceptual categories: “Strength, Style, Machine, and Picardy”