Pedro Lemebel and the Latin American chronicle

• Verfasst von: Jöhnk, Marília [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Pedro Lemebel and the Latin American chronicle
• Titelzusatz: memory, archive, cityscape
• Verf.angabe: Marília Jöhnk
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 2024-12-20
• Umfang: 28 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 16.01.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: HeLix
• Ort Quelle: Heidelberg : Univ., Romanisches Seminar, 2009
• Jahr Quelle: 2024
• Band/Heft Quelle: 17(2024), Seite 193-220
• ISSN Quelle: 2191-642X
• DOI: doi:10.11588/helix.2024.2.108354
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Pedro Lemebel
• K10plus-PPN: 1914901428
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

The following paper analyzes the importance of the chronicle in the writings of Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015). The Chilean author and performance artist embedded himself in the tradition of the Latin American chronicle and re-invented the format as radio broadcasts portraying Santiago de Chile from a queer perspective and showcasing the lives of marginalized populations. This article interprets Pedro Lemebel’s collection of chronicles De perlas y cicatrices [Of pearls and scars] by means of two concepts: ‘subterranean writing’, which aims to describe the perspective of the chronicles, and ‘ephemeral archive’, a concept that seeks to express the tension between urban transformation and testimonial memory. Departing from Pedro Lemebel, the present contribution argues in favor of a ‘memory turn’ in the Latin American tradition of chronicle writing.