Writing, transvestism, and the left in Pedro Lemebel

Authors

  • Erika Almenara Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This essay examines the narrative project of Chilean author Pedro Lemebel which foreground non-normative genders and sexualities. It argues that his narrative can be read not only as a work about personal identity, but also as constitutive of the horizon of an alternative political language. Specifically this essay focuses on the way in which Lemebel’s narrative employs transvestism as a narrative technique to deviate the discourse of the Left.