Loco afán: imaginario travesti

Paula Mangiola Zapata

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Loco afán: transvestite imaginary

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Paula Mangiola Zapata Facultad de Filosofía Y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

No. 21 (2016): Julio

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This article explains how Pedro Lemebel creates a transvestite imagery in his body of work, particularly in Loco afán, through a social and cultural vision within the artistic field and the sexual-generic frame. He values subversion and new ways of expression in the post dictatorial Chile. Because it comes from marginality, his writing generates new ideas and strategies to question the normalization and categorization that is imposed on homosexuality. Loco afán contains some of the stories of Lemebel’s friends, who suffered due to AIDS, discrimination, prostitution and poberty. I will analize two of them: “El último beso de Loba Lamar” and “La muerte de Madonna”, studying the main characters and their struggles. The author gives these characters life beyond death, allowing their voices to be heard after they where silenced by the military dictatorship and AIDS.

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Mangiola Zapata, P. (2016). Loco afán: transvestite imaginary. Nomadías, (21). Retrieved from https://revistatrabajo.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/42819

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