Pedro Lemebel

Elizabeth Osborne (Worcester State University)

Ed. by Ceire Broderick, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 21 Nov 1952
Died 23 Jan 2015

Places

Active in Chile

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Other

Artist
Poet

Resources

Identifying as queer, Marxist, mestizo, and working class, Chilean performance artist and writer Pedro Lemebel challenged and interrupted cultural, social, and political institutions from the intersection of a number of marginalized identities from the 1980s (during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship) until his untimely death in 2015. Lemebel’s urban chronicles reinvent this literary genre through a poetic sensibility, satirical humor, and creative wordplay that occupies extremely local (Chilean) language, turning him into a cultural and queer icon in Latin America and beyond.

Chile’s first author to openly describe and present himself as a loca [queen], often wearing high heels and a head scarf, Pedro …

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Citation: Osborne, Elizabeth. "Pedro Lemebel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 June 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13916, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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