Organization: Museu d'Asturies pueblu
conference room Antiguo Instituto Cultural Center (1st floor)
Calle Jovellanos, 21, Gijón
Tuesday, December 21 of 2010, 19.30
Between 1850 and 1950, many Asturian were forced to migrate to America with the hope of a brighter future away from his native Asturias. Your dreams, desires, hopes, disappointments, joys and sorrows were recorded in the letters sent to family and friends . Over time, these cards have become a source invaluable information to understand the migration and therefore the pueblu Museu d'Asturies has carried out work search and collection of these materials , now have a library more than four thousand letters from America.
This book offers the ability to read many of these letters and reconstruct the journey vital that Asturian emigrants made then us into the vast and complex universe built in the Americas, but without ever forgetting Asturias, customs, their parties or their landscapes. Through its pages the reader will become recipient of the letters and learn first hand about the life of those who emigrated , a life full of agreements and disagreements, of passions and affections, which today is part of our history.
Laura Martínez Martín has a degree in Humanities (2001) and History (2003) by the University of Alcalá. It is part of Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar Written Culture in this university and technical coordinator of the Network File and Popular Researchers Scripture. Today is conducting his doctoral thesis on the correlation Asturian emigrants in America in time contemporary issue which has already published several articles in specialized .
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