{"id":22950,"date":"2016-08-10T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22950"},"modified":"2016-08-10T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T20:00:08","slug":"austin-peays-dr-osvaldo-di-paolo-harrison-publishes-research-book-on-puerto-rican-hardboiled-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/10\/austin-peays-dr-osvaldo-di-paolo-harrison-publishes-research-book-on-puerto-rican-hardboiled-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay’s Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison publishes research book on Puerto Rican hardboiled fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – On the surface, hardboiled literature tells a story of street smart investigators, navigating a world filled with action, intrigue and sex. Cynical antiheroes fighting for justice in a world just as corrupt as the bad guys they are trying to collar.<\/p>\n

At its core, the genre is a cracked door, allowing the reader an opportunity to examine the social issues of the writer\u2019s day. Topics of race, politics, corruption and violence are sometimes uncomfortably explored by a character adhering to a moral code in a world that seems to have lost its way.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay associate professor Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison.<\/p><\/div>\n

Austin Peay State University associate professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies, Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison recently completed work on his fourth Spanish-language book, an investigation into the impact of hardboiled on the island of Puerto Rico, titled \u201cNoir ta\u00edno: La novela negra de Puerto Rico.\u201d The book is set to be published in September through San Juan, Puerto Rico-based publisher Isla Negra Editores.<\/p>\n

\u201cHardboiled has not been a topic that scholars have really looked at very often (when discussing Puerto Rican literature), and it\u2019s a topic that can\u2019t be ignored,\u201d Di Paolo Harrison said. \u201cSo I\u2019m looking at the proliferation of the genre in Puerto Rico and also the fusion of hardboiled with other genres like science fiction, autobiographies and gay mystery novels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>Di Paolo Harrison\u2019s book explores the core genre, as well as diverse fusions of hardboiled, including the representations of the black detective, female detective, gay detective and novels that carry crime as constant variable, but lack the traditional image of the detective. Additionally, the book explores the contemporary social issues that the island faces, such as women and children trafficking, discrimination, violence, corruption, immigration, relationship with the United States, drug trafficking, poverty and globalization, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m researching hardboiled fiction, I look at what the texts are saying and try to find the connection with what\u2019s happening culturally, whether it\u2019s a modern novel, or something written in the 1940s or 1970s,\u201d Di Paolo Harrison said. \u201cWhat was happening in Puerto Rico during the Vietnam War, and what did books of that time have to say? What was happening (in literature) when Puerto Rico became an associated state with the United States? What\u2019s happening currently with drug trafficking and sexual tourism, and how is modern hardboiled addressing these issues?\u201d<\/p>\n

Di Paolo Harrison has now published four books, including a study on Hispanic sci-fi and detective novels, titled \u201cPost-human Apocalyptic Moaning and Explosions: Hispanic Detective Fiction and Science Fiction of the 21st Century,\u201d as well as a book on crime in Argentina, titled \u201cCad\u00e1veres en el armario.\u201d His most recent book, \u201cNegr\u00f3tico,\u201d tackled the South American fusion of hardboiled and Gothic literature.<\/p>\n

[320right]The APSU Office of Research has played a major role in Di Paolo Harrison\u2019s work, funding the professor\u2019s research through a number of grant opportunities. Di Paolo Harrison\u2019s upcoming book was made possible through the Scholarship and Creative Fellowship Program, which provides an opportunity for up to 20 tenured or tenure-track faculty to receive an award of up to $5,000 to develop a scholarly or creative research project during a month of the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the grants that the Office of Research has provided, I would have not been able to publish my books and continue to have a solid presence among the international literary circle,\u201d Di Paolo Harrison said. \u201cIn addition, the most important achievement was to bring my research, with the funding APSU provided, to my students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of the Austin Peay spirit, everything we do is for the benefit of the student body,\u201d Di Paolo Harrison continued. \u201cResearch should be conducted for the betterment of our faculty and the knowledge that we can pass that on to our students.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book, which is written in Spanish, will be available in bookstores across Argentina and Spain in 2017.<\/p>\n

For more information on this topic, contact Di Paolo at dipaoloo@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information on the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, visit www.apsu.edu\/grants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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