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A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin Americas queer counterculture who celebrated melodrama kitsch extravagance and vulgarity of all kinds Garth Greenwell in playful performative linguistically inventive essays now available in English for the first time
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I speak from my difference wrote Pedro Lemebel an openly queer writer and artistliving through Chiles AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship Inbrilliantly innovative essaysknown as crnicasthat combinememoir reportage fiction history and poetry he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities the poor and the powerless Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chiles locasa slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaimshis writing infuses political urgency with playfulness realism with absurdism and resistance with camp and his AIDS crnicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly disappeared by casting each loca as she falls sick in the starring role of her own private tragedyThis volume brings together the best of his work introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world
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