Para travestirte mejor: Pedro Lemebel y las lecturas políticas desde los márgenes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.9.2009.33.69-82Keywords:
Pedro Lemebel, Crónica, Literatura gay, Racismo, Chile, Siglos XX-XXI, Chronicle, Gay Literature, Racism, 20th-21st CenturiesAbstract
El escritor chileno Pedro Lemebel se ha convertido en uno de los mejores cultivadores de la crónica en América Latina. Sus libros, escritos todos desde una abierta perspectiva gay y de izquierda, retratan, a veces de manera indirecta, los problemas de su país. En un temprano texto, “Tarántulas en el pelo”, Lemebel explora el problema racial latinoamericano y vuelve a la polémica decimonónica del tema (Sarmiento versus Martí) a través de un aparentemente cómico e insignificante incidente entre un peluquero gay y su cliente, una mujer que representa la nueva burguesía chilena.
Abstract
The Chilean author Pedro Lemebel has become one of the best writers of crónicas in Latin America. His books, written always from an openly gay and leftist point of view, portray, sometimes in an indirect fashion, his country’s problems. In an early piece, “Tarántulas en el pelo”, Lemebel explores the Latin American racial problem and returns to the 19th century polemic on the subject (Sarmiento versus Martí) through an apparently funny and insignificant incident between a gay hairdresser and his client, a woman who represents the new Chilean bourgeoisie.
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