El Lector : : A History of the Cigar Factory Reader / / Araceli Tinajero.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue to the English Edition
- Introduction
- Part I Reading Aloud in Cigar Factories until 1900
- 1. Cuba
- 2. From Cuba to Spain
- Part II “Workshop Graduates” and “Workers in Exile”
- 3. Key West
- 4. Tampa
- 5. Luisa Capetillo
- 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
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index