Abstract
One of the most effusive commentators on loca and travesti lives is the Chilean performance artist and writer Pedro Lemebel. Like Reinaldo Arenas before him, Lemebel in all his work speaks resolutely in the loca voice, and extratextually in his public persona he takes up this position. His adoption of the maternal surname “Lemebel” signals this identification, and through the deliberate privileging of the maternal signifier over the paternal, Lemebel makes apparent his allegiance to the feminine, an allegiance that structures his artistic and political project.1 This chapter considers this project as it is advanced in three central works, two collections of cronicas (chronicles), La esquina es mi corazon (1996; The Street Corner Is My Heart) and Loco afan: Cronicas de sidario (1997; Mad Undertaking: AIDS Chronicles), and one novel, Tengo miedo torero (2002; My Tender Matador).
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