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Emotions and Migration in Argentina at the Turn of the 20th Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvMaría Bjerg,Peter N. Stearns

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Revealing the lives of migrant couples and transnational households, this book explores the dark side of the history of migration in Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using court records, censuses, personal correspondence and a series of case studies, María Bjerg offers a portrayal of the emotional dynamics of transnational marital bonds and intimate relationships stretched across continents. Using microhistories and case studies, this book shows how migration affected marital bonds with loneliness, betrayal, fear and frustration. Focusing primarily on the emotional lives of Italian and Spanish migrants, this book explores bigamy, infidelity, adultery, domestic violence and murder within official and unofficial unions. It reveals the complexities of obligation, financial hardship, sacrifice and distance that came with migration, and explores how shame, jealousy, vengeance and disobedience led to the breaking of marital ties. Against a backdrop of changing cultural contexts Bjerg examines the emotional languages and practices used by adulterous women against their offended husbands, to justify domestic violence and as a defence against homicide. Demonstrating how migration was a powerful catalyst of change in emotional lives and in evolving social standards, Emotions and Migration in Early Twentieth-century Argentina reveals intimate and disordered lives at a time when female obedience and male honour were not only paramount, but exacerbated by distance and displacement.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-11-04
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistory of Emotions
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350193949

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter I: The land of prosperity The dark side of ProgressChapter II: Promise, Wait and Betrayal The Spanish Seamstress, a woman of discreet feelingsA cold marital bedAn irascible Italian woman in a cosmopolitan cityWidowers of the livingChapter III: Breaking the sacred vows Vengeance ShameCompassionChapter IV: The Anatomy of Everyday Hatred The poverty and the rageThe women´s moneyChapter V: The Passion of Jealousy While Virginia was sleepingThe tailor´s nervous temperamentEmotional stylesChapter VI: Killing for Love The man who loved too muchConclusion Bibliography Index