El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

by 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 dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292725760
• ISBN13: 9780292725768
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"