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El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader(LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader(LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)


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The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians. Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan's job.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Prologue to the English Edition Introduction Part I. Reading Aloud in Cigar Factories until 1900 1. Cuba 2. From Cuba to Spain: Reading Aloud in Emilia Pardo BazÁn's La Tribuna Part II. "Workshop Graduates" and "Workers in Exile": Reading Aloud in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1868–1931 3. Key West 4. Tampa 5. Luisa Capetillo: Lectora in Puerto Rico, Tampa, and New York Part III. Cigar Factory Lectores in Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, 1902–2005 6. Cuba, 1902–1959 7. Cuba, 1959–2005 8. Mexico: The Echoes of Reading 9. The Dominican Republic: Reading Aloud and the Future Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Araceli Tinajero is a professor in the Foreign Languages Department at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Review :
"El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures." Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292725768
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Series Title: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
  • Sub Title: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0292725760
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr


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