{"id":25501,"date":"2018-02-23T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25501"},"modified":"2018-02-23T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:23:40","slug":"apsus-osvaldo-di-paolo-harrison-publishes-fifth-scholarly-work-on-hispanic-crime-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/23\/apsus-osvaldo-di-paolo-harrison-publishes-fifth-scholarly-work-on-hispanic-crime-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU\u2019s Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison publishes fifth scholarly work on Hispanic crime fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 1978, the Spanish crime novelist Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez-Cal\u00edn created Gay Flower, a tough private detective reminiscent of Mikey Spillane\u2019s Mike Hammer and Raymond Chandler\u2019s Philip Marlow.<\/p>\n

Flower\u2019s adventures through the hardboiled underworld of 1940s Los Angeles helped revive crime fiction in Spain and Latin America, but Mart\u00ednez-Cal\u00edn is rarely mentioned in academic journals or invited to the genre\u2019s many celebrated literary festivals, like Spain\u2019s popular Semana Negra (Black Week).<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU professor Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison with his recently published book \u201cQueer Noir Hispanico”.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison, Austin Peay State University Spanish professor, said Mart\u00ednez-Cal\u00edn is often overlooked because his creation\u2014Gay Flower\u2014doesn\u2019t seduce femme fatales. Instead, the detective prefers their husbands.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeninsular and Latin American hardboiled literature tends to exclude homosexual characters in its plots because the publication of hardboiled is a world dominated by men of traditional sexuality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last month, Di Paolo Harrison published his fifth scholarly book, \u201cQueer Noir Hispanico,\u201d in an effort to bring homosexual detective characters out of the margins of the Hispanic world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gathered a small corpus of Hispanic hardboiled books in which homosexuality is present by the incorporation of gay detectives, gay murderers and gay victims,\u201d he said. \u201cThis book will continue to diversify the varied and complicated facts of homosexuality in Spain and Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Argentinean press recently named Di Paolo Harrison as one of the top 10 literary critics of contemporary hardboiled fiction, and his growing academic reputation has led to invitations from prestigious literary conferences around the world. Recently, he presented his research at Medellin Negro, a conference organized by the University of Antioquia in Colombia.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Di Paolo Harrison received Austin Peay\u2019s Socrates Award for Excellence in Teaching and the University\u2019s Richard M. Hawkins Award for significant contributions to scholarship. His colleagues at other institutions believe this new work is continuing his legacy of important scholarly work.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Queer Noir Hispanico\u2019 is a ground-breaking publication that constitutes a true contribution to the field of Hispanic Studies,\u201d Dr. Daniel Torres, professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Ohio University, said. \u201cIt takes the genre of noir narrative in Latin America and Spain out of the closet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this book, Dr. Di Paolo Harrison opens a new space for research in areas of Hispanic Noir Literature by placing in the queer elements to his investigations,\u201d Dr. Jeandelize Gonzalez-Rivera, assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacaco, said.<\/p>\n

The book, written in Spanish, focuses on 16 novels from different regions, including Argentina, Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico and Chile.<\/p>\n

\u201cHardboiled novels are probably the most popular readings in the Hispanic world because of the strong social criticism they include,\u201d Di Paolo Harrison said. \u201cIt is necessary to acknowledge this genre from a queer perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the book or Di Paolo Harrison\u2019s research, contact him at dipaoloo@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – In 1978, the Spanish crime novelist Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez-Cal\u00edn created Gay Flower, a tough private detective reminiscent of Mikey Spillane\u2019s Mike Hammer and Raymond Chandler\u2019s Philip Marlow. Flower\u2019s adventures through the hardboiled underworld of 1940s Los Angeles helped revive crime fiction in Spain and Latin America, but Mart\u00ednez-Cal\u00edn is rarely mentioned in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,9764,262,20244,825,31628,9769,13695,28287,18631,9794],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25502,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}