El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader
Author:   Araceli Tinajero ,  Judith E. Grasberg
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
ISBN:  

9780292721753


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   15 February 2010
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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Author:   Araceli Tinajero ,  Judith E. Grasberg
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.618kg
ISBN:  

9780292721753


ISBN 10:   0292721757
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   15 February 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Language:   Spanish

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 Bazan'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

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""El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures."" oRoberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University


"""El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures."" oRoberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University"


El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures. oRoberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University


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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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