{"id":28422,"date":"2020-02-08T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28422"},"modified":"2020-02-07T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T05:07:14","slug":"apsus-di-paolo-harrison-looks-at-femicide-for-sixth-scholarly-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/02\/08\/apsus-di-paolo-harrison-looks-at-femicide-for-sixth-scholarly-book\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU\u2019s Di Paolo Harrison looks at femicide for sixth scholarly book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Last year, The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing article with the headline, \u201cWomen in Latin America Are Being Murdered at Record Rates.\u201d In the piece, journalist Juan Forero explained that \u201cWomen die disproportionately at the hands of men throughout much of Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University professor Di Paolo Harrison. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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In Argentina, femicide \u2013 the murder of women by men because of the victim\u2019s gender \u2013 is a regular topic on the evening news.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother watches the daily news on Argentine TV all the time, and every day she will come and say, \u2018There\u2019s another femicide and another femicide,\u2019\u201d Dr. Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison, Austin Peay State University Spanish professor, said. \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going to look into this,\u2019 and I found that in January 2019, a femicide was perpetrated in Argentina every 27 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

These unsettling revelations sent Di Paolo Harrison \u2013 one of the top 10 literary critics of contemporary hardboiled fiction, according to the Argentine press \u2013 on a year-long journey through crime novels to see how these authors interpreted this chilling trend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to see it through the lens of literature, through detective fiction, which is the social novel of the 21st century and part of the 20th<\/sup> century,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last month, Di Paolo Harrison published his sixth scholarly book, \u201cFemicr\u00edmenes: Femicidios en la literatura del siglo XX y XXI (\u201cCrimes Against Women: The Sexually Sadistic Killing of Women in Literature of the 20th and 21st Century\u201d), which explores femicide from colonial times to the present day. From a literary perspective the book studies the fusion of femicide with experimental literature, French objectivism, the aesthetic of the absurd, the subversion of detective fiction, regionalist literature, journalism, the psychological novel and mystic literature.<\/p>\n

The book explores femicide and its relation with \u201cwomen trafficking, the degradation of man in a psychopathic society, induced suicide, the Oedipus complex, repetition compulsion, fundamentalism, masculine supremacy, impunity of crimes\u201d and the \u201ccorruption of the law and the crumbling of the social body and marital life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book, written in Spanish, is co-authored by Fabian Mossello, a professor with The National University of C\u00f3rdoba in Argentina.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Di Paolo Harrison received Austin Peay State University\u2019s Socrates Award for Excellence in Teaching and the University\u2019s Richard M. Hawkins Award for significant contributions to scholarship. His previous book, \u201cQueer Noir Hispanico,\u201d examined homosexual detective characters who previously existed in the margins of the Hispanic world.<\/p>\n

[320left]\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

Di Paolo Harrison is also the author of \u201cNoir Boricua: La novela negra de Puerto Rico,\u201d \u201cNegr\u00f3tico,\u201d \u201cGemidos y explosiones apocal\u00edpticas poshumanas: la novela negra y de ciencia ficci\u00f3n hispana del siglo XXI\u201d and \u201cCad\u00e1veres en el armario: el policial palimps\u00e9stico en la literatura argentina contempor\u00e1nea.\u201d<\/p>\n

More information on Di Paolo Harrison and his work is available at www.apsu.edu\/directory\/faculty\/dipaoloo<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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