ARACELI TINAJERO is a professor in the Foreign Languages Department at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Acknowledgments Prologue to the English Edition IntroductionPart I Reading Aloud in Cigar Factories until 19001. Cuba2. From Cuba to Spain: Reading Aloud in Emilia Pardo Bazán's La TribunaPart II "Workshop Graduates" and "Workers in Exile": Reading Aloud in the United States and Puerto Rico, 1868-19313. Key West4. Tampa5. Luisa Capetillo: Lectora in Puerto Rico, Tampa, and New YorkPart III Cigar Factory Lectores in Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, 1902-20056. Cuba, 1902-19597. Cuba, 1959-20058. Mexico: The Echoes of Reading9. The Dominican Republic: Reading Aloud and the FutureEpilogue Notes Bibliography Index