Rafael Ocasio
Biographic Data
| ID | 823700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Ocasio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Ocasio |
| SIGNATURE | OCASIO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agnes Scott College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2422-7117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture, by Carmen Haydée Rivera & Jorge Duany (eds.)
CharlieVázquez. Fantasmas: Puerto Rican Tales of the Dead. Charlie Vázquez Publishing, 2020. 230pp
El tiempo como significante abolicionista: Un ingenio azucarero cubano según Anselmo Suárez y Romero
Objetivo: en este artículo documento la función laboral de los trabajadores esclavizados que llegaron a Cuba y fueron destinados mayormente a plantaciones azucareras durante la trata ilegal a partir de 1820. Analizo particularmente su presencia literaria en el costumbrismo, tendencia literaria del momento que autocensuró reportar las violaciones de los estatutos laborales que proveían para la manutención de los trabajadores esclavizados. Metodolo…
A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection: The Diary of George Howe
In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as staff workers at these facilities. Available in print for the first t…
A Transatlantic Slavery Narrative: Work Sketches of a Nineteenth-Century Bristolian-Cuban Sugar Cane Plantation and President Barack Obama’s “Black Speech” in Cuba
After the Haitian Revolution in 1804, Cuba became the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its principal buyer. There was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and Bristol, Rhode Island, which supported an illegal slave trade for Bristolian-owned ingenios, or sugarcane plantations in Cuba.This paper examines two outstanding testimonial accounts in the context of that shared transatlantic slave trade spearheaded by the Un…
Mischief in “La Cenizosa”: An Unpublished Creole Fable by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer promoted the Puerto Rican Creole culture by means of emblematic characters, mostly women, who were protagonists of her extensive literary work. Ortiz Cofer left an unpublished cr
Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums
Cuban Costumbrista writers reported the strong presence of African traditions developed by slaves and by freed Blacks as agents of a vigorous popular culture that was highly visible throughout the nineteenth century. In their handling of Black themes, Costumbristas addressed four main subjects: (1) the particularities of the sugar-cane plantation, rich in slave cultures (as performed in different formats of acculturation by both African and Creol…
Cuban Palimpsests
Cuba's Political and Sexual Outlaw: Reinaldo Arenas
This detailed biographical account of Reinaldo Arenas's open opposition to Cuba's revolutionary institutions reveals the price that the well-known Cuban dissident--one of the first out-of-the-closet gay writers from Latin America--paid in his quest for political, sexual, and literary freedom. Arenas was a semiliterate peasant in Havana in 1962 when, at age 22, he began a promising literary career. His autobiographical fiction boldly explored stro…
Gays and the Cuban Revolution: The Case of Reinaldo Arenas
Persecution of homosexuals has been, to a great extent, a war waged by the Castro government in efforts to destroy the most resistant kind of social bond in the nation: resistant, because for centuries it has been accustomed to survive under repressive circumstances, because its natural environment has been secrecy. -Ana María Simó and Reinaldo García Ramos Literature is queer stuff, and I am truly a queer. -Virgilio Piñera
Reinaldo Arenas
Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers
Introduction Jack Agueros Miguel Algarin Sandra Maria Esteves Victor Hernandez Cruz Tato Laviera Nicholasa Mohr Judith Ortiz Cofer Pedro Pietri Louis Reyes Rivera Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. Esmeralda Santiago Piri Thomas Edwin Torres Ed Vega Chronology Additional Bibliography Index
The Infinite Variety of the Puerto Rican Reality: An Interview With Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reinaldo Arenas: Alucinaciones, fantasías y realidad
El placer de la palabra, Literatura erótica femenina de América Latina, Antología crítica
Julio Torri y la crítica en los años ochenta
The Name Game. Writing/Fading Writer in 'De donde son los cantantes
Gays and the Cuban Revolution: The Case of Reinaldo Arenas
Persecution of homosexuals has been, to a great extent, a war waged by the Castro government in efforts to destroy the most resistant kind of social bond in the nation: resistant, because for centuries it has been accustomed to survive under repressive circumstances, because its natural environment has been secrecy. -Ana María Simó and Reinaldo García Ramos Literature is queer stuff, and I am truly a queer. -Virgilio Piñera
The Name Game. Writing/Fading Writer in 'De donde son los cantantes
Julio Torri y la crítica en los años ochenta
Reinaldo Arenas: Alucinaciones, fantasías y realidad
El placer de la palabra, Literatura erótica femenina de América Latina, Antología crítica
The Infinite Variety of the Puerto Rican Reality: An Interview With Judith Ortiz Cofer
Reinaldo Arenas
Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers
Introduction Jack Agueros Miguel Algarin Sandra Maria Esteves Victor Hernandez Cruz Tato Laviera Nicholasa Mohr Judith Ortiz Cofer Pedro Pietri Louis Reyes Rivera Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. Esmeralda Santiago Piri Thomas Edwin Torres Ed Vega Chronology Additional Bibliography Index
Gays and the Cuban Revolution: The Case of Reinaldo Arenas
Persecution of homosexuals has been, to a great extent, a war waged by the Castro government in efforts to destroy the most resistant kind of social bond in the nation: resistant, because for centuries it has been accustomed to survive under repressive circumstances, because its natural environment has been secrecy. -Ana María Simó and Reinaldo García Ramos Literature is queer stuff, and I am truly a queer. -Virgilio Piñera
Cuba's Political and Sexual Outlaw: Reinaldo Arenas
This detailed biographical account of Reinaldo Arenas's open opposition to Cuba's revolutionary institutions reveals the price that the well-known Cuban dissident--one of the first out-of-the-closet gay writers from Latin America--paid in his quest for political, sexual, and literary freedom. Arenas was a semiliterate peasant in Havana in 1962 when, at age 22, he began a promising literary career. His autobiographical fiction boldly explored stro…
Cuban Palimpsests
Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums
Cuban Costumbrista writers reported the strong presence of African traditions developed by slaves and by freed Blacks as agents of a vigorous popular culture that was highly visible throughout the nineteenth century. In their handling of Black themes, Costumbristas addressed four main subjects: (1) the particularities of the sugar-cane plantation, rich in slave cultures (as performed in different formats of acculturation by both African and Creol…
Mischief in “La Cenizosa”: An Unpublished Creole Fable by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer promoted the Puerto Rican Creole culture by means of emblematic characters, mostly women, who were protagonists of her extensive literary work. Ortiz Cofer left an unpublished cr
A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection: The Diary of George Howe
In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as staff workers at these facilities. Available in print for the first t…
A Transatlantic Slavery Narrative: Work Sketches of a Nineteenth-Century Bristolian-Cuban Sugar Cane Plantation and President Barack Obama’s “Black Speech” in Cuba
After the Haitian Revolution in 1804, Cuba became the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its principal buyer. There was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and Bristol, Rhode Island, which supported an illegal slave trade for Bristolian-owned ingenios, or sugarcane plantations in Cuba.This paper examines two outstanding testimonial accounts in the context of that shared transatlantic slave trade spearheaded by the Un…
CharlieVázquez. Fantasmas: Puerto Rican Tales of the Dead. Charlie Vázquez Publishing, 2020. 230pp
El tiempo como significante abolicionista: Un ingenio azucarero cubano según Anselmo Suárez y Romero
Objetivo: en este artículo documento la función laboral de los trabajadores esclavizados que llegaron a Cuba y fueron destinados mayormente a plantaciones azucareras durante la trata ilegal a partir de 1820. Analizo particularmente su presencia literaria en el costumbrismo, tendencia literaria del momento que autocensuró reportar las violaciones de los estatutos laborales que proveían para la manutención de los trabajadores esclavizados. Metodolo…
Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture, by Carmen Haydée Rivera & Jorge Duany (eds.)
Art (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Cuban History and Society (9 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)