El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as...
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Author: Araceli Tinajero
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Language: English
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El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader by Tinajero, Araceli

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

Dhs. 249.16

El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

Dhs. 249.16
Author: Araceli Tinajero
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Araceli Tinajero
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780292725768

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

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