El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780292725768
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 02/01/2010
Series: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.18(d)

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.

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

What People are Saying About This

Roberto González Echevarría

El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures.
Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures.
Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University

Roberto González Echevarría

El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures.

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