launch of the book “Claudina. theater, love and revolution in La Pampa Salitrera”
- National Archive, Ricardo Donoso, Miraflores 50, Santa Lucía Metro.
- Thursday, May 15 – 6:30 p.m.
From history to the narrative. This has been the overturning that the 2014 National History Award and Sociologist graduated from the U. of Chile, Sergio González Miranda; All this with the publication of the book Claudina Theater, love and revolution in the Pampa Salitrerathrough the Pampa Negra Seal Ediciones. Its pages tell the emotional story of Claudina Morales Pavez, who was an outstanding director of the theater and protagonist of important political events of the Pampino worker.
As explained by the academic of the university of Tarapacá, to launch into this narrative adventure “implied a challenge and commitment, with Claudina and her daughters: Rogelia and Marina, but also with me. I realized that historiography, even the biography, could not express what this woman’s life was the persecutions ”.
Along with this, he relieved that addressing the memory of the labor theater currently represents “recognizing the importance of other agencies, different from school, in the educational process. At that time, night schools for workers created by mutual organizations were fundamental, and also the theater. There many learned their first letters, and they could also speak in public”.
Claudina Morales Pavez (1892-1972) was an outstanding woman in the time of Salitre; Director of theatrical sets, workers’ leader and militant of women’s organizations, had an outstanding participation in Iquique, Mejillones and Antofagasta, as well as in the offices of: Peña Grande, Cala Cala and Santa Laura. Until today its history had not been told, and it is through the pages of this novel, that the author pays the expected tribute.
-“Claudina is a protagonist and, at the same time, a privileged witness of that world in which the workers edited and wrote newspapers and the workers organized plays, to be distributed and represented in every corner of the desert and beyond,” as the historian Ivanna Margarucci points out in the prologue. Thus, in the novel, figures such as María Teresa Flores, Belén de Sáraga and Luis Emilio Recabarren, in addition to different relevant facts of the political and social history of the North Chilean North.
All narrated from the pen of González Miranda, who reconstructs this story from interviews conducted to Rogelia and Marina, Daughters of Claudina, as well as an old family album in which they were fixing their memories, theatrical librettos and appearances in the press. This novel is published by the Antofagastino Seal Pampa Negra Ediciones, integrating to its Northine Literature Library collection.
Sergio González Miranda
Iquiqueño historian and sociologist. Sociologist for the University of Chile, Master in Regional Urban Development from the Catholic University, and Doctor; in Education by the Academy of Christian Humanism, and in American Studies by the Santiago de Chile University. The Pampina culture, the Salitre Society and the border relations between Chile, Bolivia and Peru, among other issues of the North Grande have profusely investigated. In the 80’s’ he was one of the founders of the Regional Studies Workshop, and the emblematic Camanchaca magazine. Academic in different university schools, especially at the Arturo Prat University and, currently, at the University of Tarapacá. From his vast written production, we highlight: men and women of La Pampa (1991), Chileanizing Tunupa (2002), the captive god (2004); Pampa written: letters and fragments of the Salitrero Desert (2006), offers to a massacre (2007); The key and the lock (2008) voices from the sand (2021) and the desert mirror (2024). Trajectory that, among other recognitions, has been consecrated with the National History Award in 2014 and be appointed illustrious son of Iquique that same year.
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