El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader »

ARACELI TINAJERO is a professor in the Foreign Languages Department at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

ARACELI TINAJERO is a professor in the Foreign Languages Department at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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