Orality and radical culture in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. The cases of Rio Cuarto and San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s

Abstract

This paper looks at the existence of a radical culture in Argentina, outside the main urban centers. Especially we study two cities: San Francisco and Río Cuarto in Córdoba province, in the 1930s and 1940s. The use of Oral History helps us discover a rich world unknown to us. Analyzing a series of interviews to workers, intellectuals and political militants, we found a new conception of politics, culture and militancy. Most of interviewees tend to explain their politicization as natural derivation of their life experience rather than as what we perceive as a traditional process of politicization.