University:
Arizona State University
Course:
HST 200 | Historical Themes
Academic year:

2024
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279

Pages:

2
Author:

Thuyoul US

(TEJERA) A CANARIAN THAT LEFT ITS MARK ON CIENFUEGOS The stories of daily life of Canarian immigrants in Cuba deserve attention, as they recreate in many cases the luck, and in others, the difficult situations they went through on the island. The daily occurrence of the immigrant in his work and socio-cultural world are elements of the first order to rescue from time and oblivion these men who adapted to a new environment, took it as their second homeland, and felt half Spanish half Cuban, because of the roots they had in this land without forgetting their native land. The study of Iberian migrations becomes an important object, if we take into account the need to rescue the life and work of the large number of intellectuals, artists and writers, who have been forced to leave their respective regions and seek refuge in other parts of the world for different reasons. Such was the case of the writer in question, who for economic reasons first, and then for political reasons, lived almost all his life in Cuba, and specifically in Cienfuegos, a city located in the centersouth of the island. Outlining the migratory phenomenon in its various facets and aspects, and giving life to what has remained in history: the sufferings of the immigrant, his desires, his vicissitudes, jobs, meetings, traditions, spaces of sociability and customs, among other aspects, are the elements that have been taken into account to study the personality and work of the Tenerife native Saturnino Tejera García (Tenerife, Spain). 1900Cienfuegos, 1956). Every task of investigation in the course of time and the work of search and clocking, encounters pitfalls that are difficult to cross; That is, sometimes there are gaps and gaps that are impossible to cover due to the absence of data in some cases, and in others, due to the loss of the trace of what is being investigated. In our particular case, both reasons have undermined this situation; in addition to others, which are given by the remoteness where some sources are located and the difficult access to them. However, we believe that the material with which we have worked is representative, since we have been able to shape and tie together the chain of facts and events that reflect the life of Saturnino Tejera, both in the Canary Islands and in Cienfuegos. This paper is part of another larger work on the life of this immigrant that I have been doing for some time, including a compilation of his work in prose and verse, as well as the passive bibliography scattered in publications. During the two stages of his life in this city: emigration and exile. The work presented has been structured in four parts: - Emigration until 1933. - Return to the Canary Islands in 1933. The Civil War. - The Exile (1945-1956). - Vesperal.