De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905

This text focuses on 51 letters of a young man from Pra-Soubeyran, a small town located at the foot of the lower French Alps, in the Barcelonette valley. Each one of these letters was addressed to his parents in Mexico from 1902 to 1905. He was hired as a worker for an important cloth store (Las Fáb...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d30248f329864dc0b4b574a9339383d82021-12-02T10:27:27ZDe desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-19051626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.14332https://doaj.org/article/d30248f329864dc0b4b574a9339383d82008-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/14332https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This text focuses on 51 letters of a young man from Pra-Soubeyran, a small town located at the foot of the lower French Alps, in the Barcelonette valley. Each one of these letters was addressed to his parents in Mexico from 1902 to 1905. He was hired as a worker for an important cloth store (Las Fábricas Universales), founded by a successful group of immigrants –among them, one of his own cousins– from the same valley. The aim of this work is to expose the relationship of those young workers at public and private spaces. His feelings of a strong homesick and the contempt he developed towards his new place of residence, are key elements for understanding his decision to return to his village, without having accomplished his original goal: provide financial aid to his parents. This attitude which seems is understandable considering his rural origins. Other elements (both objective and subjective) would also affect his condition, helping us to understand his alienation in Mexico and the utterly failure of his long- desired homecoming (he died before achieving it).Leticia Gamboa OjedaCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleLetters. Mexico. France. Migrations. Commerce. Identity. Public and private spaces.AnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2008)
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topic Letters. Mexico. France. Migrations. Commerce. Identity. Public and private spaces.
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle Letters. Mexico. France. Migrations. Commerce. Identity. Public and private spaces.
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Leticia Gamboa Ojeda
De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
description This text focuses on 51 letters of a young man from Pra-Soubeyran, a small town located at the foot of the lower French Alps, in the Barcelonette valley. Each one of these letters was addressed to his parents in Mexico from 1902 to 1905. He was hired as a worker for an important cloth store (Las Fábricas Universales), founded by a successful group of immigrants –among them, one of his own cousins– from the same valley. The aim of this work is to expose the relationship of those young workers at public and private spaces. His feelings of a strong homesick and the contempt he developed towards his new place of residence, are key elements for understanding his decision to return to his village, without having accomplished his original goal: provide financial aid to his parents. This attitude which seems is understandable considering his rural origins. Other elements (both objective and subjective) would also affect his condition, helping us to understand his alienation in Mexico and the utterly failure of his long- desired homecoming (he died before achieving it).
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title De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
title_short De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
title_full De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
title_fullStr De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
title_full_unstemmed De desdenes y añoranzas. Los espacios en las cartas de un empleado Barcelonnette en México: León Martin, 1902-1905
title_sort de desdenes y añoranzas. los espacios en las cartas de un empleado barcelonnette en méxico: león martin, 1902-1905
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2008
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