The private letter, one of the most representative expressions of mass literacy, was the product of improved postal services and epistolary manuals. In the nineteenth century, which also witnessed the new phenomenon of mass emigration, letter writing became one of the most common practices. This article discusses the correspondence of José Moldes, an Asturian who left Spain for Puerto Rico at the age of fourteen and settled shortly afterwards in Chile. He died in his native Asturias at the age of sixty-one. Throughout these fifty or so years, José wrote letters to keep in contact with members of his family, to control them when he became head of the household or to manage his businesses and investments. About 120 of his letters survived in the MoldesBarreras family archive, through which we can reconstruct his experiences. The essential characteristics of this epistolary corpus emerge from an analysis of its material and graphic aspects, suggesting the profound influence of immigration on personal writing.
<p>Las nuevas líneas y usos que propulsa la Historia Pública son un excelente acicate para que los historiadores/as, así como los docentes de esta disciplina, apuesten no solo por renovar sus investigaciones sino también por realizar cambios en las aulas que saquen la Historia a la calle y llegar así a un público no especializado, pero cada vez más demandante de conocimientos históricos. En esta línea, el binomio Historia-Turismo tiene mucho que aportar, como demuestra la presencia cada vez mayor del Turismo Histórico y que aumenten los visitantes que eligen rutas culturales e históricas. Todavía es mucho lo que se puede avanzar, máxime cuando se trata de revalorizar un patrimonio que suele pasar desapercibido, incluso para los gestores culturales: el Patrimonio Escrito. Nuestras ciudades están llenas de escritura: grafitis, carteles publicitarios, bandos informativos, avisos, anuncios por palabras, estelas, placas, etc. Nuestro propósito en este artículo es acercarnos a los itinerarios turísticos como medio para divulgar la Historia a través del Patrimonio Escrito y analizar sus múltiples posibilidades. Para ello, reflexionaremos en torno a un estudio de caso a partir de nuestra experiencia docente en la asignatura transversal <em>Patrimonio histórico y cultura escrita: nuevos itinerarios turísticos </em>que impartimos en la Universidad de Alcalá, que supone un ejercicio práctico que pretende aunar la Historia Pública, los itinerarios turísticos y el Patrimonio Escrito.</p>
This is a story about something that happened to a man who had a girlfriend in Amatenango. One night when he went there to court her, he met a woman on the road who said that she was the one he loved. She urged him to go away with her before her father could find them. But when he looked closely, he saw that her toes were backwards. He put a blindfold on her and hit her, and she ran off. Later, the man decided to try to find her again in order to get her back for deceiving him. So he went out again at night on the road where he had met her, and there she was again. "I've come looking for you", he said. "Well, then, let's go", said the woman. So they went off and when they sat down, he embraced her. So she didn't notice that he put a blessed needle beneath her. The needle had some power that kept the woman from getting up. "You just stay there", the man said. And when dawn came, she was still there. Some other men came by and saw her sitting there with her hair all streaming down, and they knew it was the Mala Mujer that the man had met. Meanwhile, the man went to get a priest. He told the priest that he didn't think the woman was a real woman, and the priest went to see her sitting there on the needle. He told the man to hit her with a branch while the priest prayed. When the man began to hit her and the priest began to pray, the woman just disappeared.
Este trabajo se inserta en el marco del proyecto de investigación Cinco siglos de cartas. Escritura privada y comunicación epistolar en España en la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea (HAR2008-00874/HIST), concedido por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y dirigido por el profesor Antonio Castillo Gómez.
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