CAD VERES EN EL ARMARIO EL POLICIAL PALIMPS STICO EN LA LITERATU

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2011

CADÁVERES EN EL ARMARIO: EL POLICIAL
PALIMPSÉSTICO EN LA LITERATURA
ARGENTINA CONTEMPORÁNEA
Osvaldo Di Paolo
University of Kentucky, dipaoloo@apsu.edu

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Di Paolo, Osvaldo, "CADÁVERES EN EL ARMARIO: EL POLICIAL PALIMPSÉSTICO EN LA LITERATURA ARGENTINA
CONTEMPORÁNEA" (2011).University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. Paper 36.
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LITERATURA ARGENTINA CONTEMPORÁNEA

ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
The Graduate School
at the University of Kentucky

By
Osvaldo Di Paolo
Lexington, Kentucky
Director: Dr. Ana Rueda, Professor of Hispanic Studies
Lexington, Kentucky
2010Copyright @ Osvaldo Di Paolo 2010

ABSTRACT OF DISSERTATION

CADÁVERES EN EL ARMARIO: EL POLICIAL PALIMPSÉSTICO EN LA
LITERATURA ARGENTINA CONTEMPORÁNEA
This dissertation investigates the emergence of detective fiction and film from
1994 to the present. The corpus appears during the government of Carlos Menem and its
intent to insert Argentina into a globalized economy. Poverty, insecurity andviolence
prevail in the Argentine society and ten detective novels, based on real-life murders,
appear in 1994. Consequently, I explore each murder case, beginning with the newspaper
article, and trace its transformation into short fiction, novel and/or film. The articles about
the homicides follow the tendencies of the sensationalist yellow press. The writers and
film directors, however, transform thosestories, following and also subverting the
characteristics of the classic detective fiction or the hard-boiled. In doing so, these recreations of the murder cases aim to denounce or criticize specific aspects of Argentine
society: domestic violence, discrimination, stigmatization and corruption, among others.
KEYWORDS: Detective Fiction, Crime Film, Yellow Press, Murder Cases, Argentina
Osvaldo DiPaolo
December 15, 2010

CADÁVERES EN EL ARMARIO: EL POLICIAL PALIMPSÉSTICO EN LA
LITERATURA ARGENTINA CONTEMPORÁNEA

By
Osvaldo Di Paolo

Dr. Ana Rueda
Director of Thesis
Dr. Aníbal Biglieri
Director of Graduate Studies

December 15, 2010
Date

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DISSERTATION

Osvaldo Di Paolo

The Graduate School
University of Kentucky
2010

CADÁVERES EN EL ARMARIO: EL POLICIAL PALIMPSÉSTICO EN LA
LITERATURA ARGENTINA CONTEMPORÁNEA

DISSERTATION

A dissertation submitted inpartial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
The Graduate School
at the University of Kentucky

By
Osvaldo Di Paolo
Lexington, Kentucky
Director: Ana Rueda, Ph. D., Professor of Hispanic Studies
Lexington, Kentucky
2010
Copyright @ Osvaldo Di Paolo 2010

A mi abuelo Edmundo Aguilar.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, I would like to thank my Dissertation Director,...