La reescritura de la crónica de Indias en las crónicas de Pedro Lemebel. Usos iletrados del género

Abstract

The present essay addresses a collection of chronicles of chilean writer Pedro Lemebel reflecting on the modes in which they establish a dialogue with the remotest Indian’s chronicles. The present article asks for the aesthetic and political role that this genre choice has in Lemebel’s writing proyect. The hypothesis suggests the use of chronicle as a rescue and a des-archivation of the genre that implies inevitably a re-writing of it. By this means Lemebel tells again the silenced elements of Latin America’s violence history from the Conquest on. From this attitude the writer confronts as well the knowledge’s colonialism inside literary historiography, responsible for narrate the “history” of itself as a genre. Lemebel disturbs the aesthetic form used in the official History. There it is where the place given in Lemebel’s texts to the scheme of orality, eroticism and India’s baroque becomes relevant. In order to approach this issues the present essay make use of Derrida’s “Genre’s Law” (1980) suggestions.