O devir travesti do mundo: o projeto político-literário de Pedro Lemebel em Loco Afán

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the political-literary project in the texts in Loco Afán (2001) by the Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel. Starting from the concept of minor literature proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2017), I will investigate the processes of deterritorilization, through the discursive perspective of homosexuality, considering the poetic text as a political tool and how it becomes the expression of a community. I argue that Lemebel's writing presents a political and revolutionary potential that indicates a profound relationship between the individual and the collective, configuring the space-time of the Lemebelian texts in a thematic axis constituted by the criticism of the dictatorship, the deaths caused by AIDS and the effects of the neoliberal system in society. From this point, I propose that Lemebel has a political-literary project that points to the future on a global level, having as the main axis of agency the transvestite community.