Focusing on the ending of the lector tradition in cigar factories,Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics,a masterpiece of contemporary Cuban American drama,unveils the crisis of cultural community faced by the Cuban Americans on the brink of the Great Depression in the late 1920s.Ophelia and her daughters strive to revive the lector tradition in their cigar factory through nostalgia,actively seeking to construct the Cuban American cultural community.However,Cheché's shooting of the lector,Juan Julian,violently dismantles the Cuban American cultural tradition,echoing the dominance of the powerful culture rooted in mechanical civilization over the marginalized culture rooted in manual civilization.Palomo's persistent reading proves insufficient in resolving the impending demise of Cuban American cultural tradition,ultimately devolving into an elegy for the vanishing heritage expressed through irony.
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