Un gótico orillero: Pedro Lemebel

Abstract

The article proposes a round through some chronicles of Pedro Lemebel in which the Gothic Aesthetics is imposed. According to María Negroni, if this choice is justified in the case of the female figure –by effective presence, bleak absence or spatial movement–, the first adjustment to the gender is the foreground that the trans acquires in the texts, although in this case the aesthetic territory is in dispute with the baroque verbal resources which place Lemebel in the series began in South America by Néstor Perlongher with the neobarroso. References to the suburbs in Santiago, death by AIDS with all its funeral paraphernalia around emaciated bodies and the emergence of urban tribes in dispute for the urban space with the alleged divas of the suburb are some of the features in which the Gothic lemebeliano unfolds with vocation of political resistance.