The Loca’s Revolution: From Social Criticism to Poetic Constitution in Pedro Lemebel’s Manifiesto
In September 1986, Manifiesto, a poem by Pedro Lemebel, was presented during a Communist Party event at Estación Mapocho in Santiago. Critics claim that the text questioned the neoliberal values that marginalized dissident sexualities and their prolongation in the political left. However, in this ar...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/3853 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/3853 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | homosexualidad Latinoamérica Literatura Pedro Lemebel sociedad Chile marxismo homosexuality Latin America Literature society marxism |
| Sumario: | In September 1986, Manifiesto, a poem by Pedro Lemebel, was presented during a Communist Party event at Estación Mapocho in Santiago. Critics claim that the text questioned the neoliberal values that marginalized dissident sexualities and their prolongation in the political left. However, in this article, through textual analysis and considering the context of production, I propose, on the one hand, that it challenged the Marxist precepts on homosexuality to avoid the segregation of sexual dissidents in case of achieving the communist revolution in Chile —as it happened in Cuba—; on the other hand, that the ethical-political attitude of the composition reveals a poetic that imbricates body, gender, sexuality, and social commitment. |
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