A last supper of queer apostles : selected essays / Pedro Lemebel ; edited, translated, and with an introduction and notes by Gwendolyn Harper ; foreword by Idra Novey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemebel, Pedro, author.

Contributor:

Harper, Gwendolyn, editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Novey, Idra, writer of foreword.

Local Philadelphia: Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Lemebel, Pedro--Translations into English.

Lemebel, Pedro.

Latino/a/x queer people.

HIV/AIDS.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xl, 224 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, [2024]

Summary:

"A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"'I speak from my difference,' wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile's AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays--known as crónicas--that combine memoir, 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 Chile's locas--a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims--his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly 'disappeared' by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This 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." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Foreword / Idra Novey

Introduction / Gwendolyn Harper

A last supper of queer apostles. In lieu of a synopsis

Maricón. Her throaty laugh (or, the Travesti streetwalker's sweet deceit)

Manifesto (I speak from my difference)

Anacondas in the park

New York chronicles (Stonewall Inn)

Chile : sea men and cueca (or, "get dressed, Juana Rosa")

Where the music and the lights never went out

Even poppies have thorns

Wild desire

Coup. For five minutes you blossom (Victor Jara)

Pisagua on pointe

If you don't return

Merci, beau coup

Black orchids (or, the DINA's cultural center)

Where were you?

Ronald Wood

Night at the circus

Flash art politics : three tales

AIDS. Diamonds are forever (frivolous, cadaverous, wayward)

Night of furs (or, popular unity's last supper)

The death of Madonna

Letter to Liz Taylor (or, Egyptian emeralds for AZT)

The million names of María Chameleon

Regine, queen of monkey aluminums

Hot pants at the sodomy disco

False lashes

Loba Lamar's last kiss ("silk ribbons at my funeral, please...")

Post-90. Frou-frou exiles (there was once a café in Montparnasse)

The ballad of Willy Oddó (or, a Travesti maiden's mortal scratch)

Aftertaste

Gonzalo (memory's compact)

So long, Che! (or, a thousand ways to say goodbye to a myth)

Dialogue (or, dark negotiations under a white tablecloth)

Act like nothing happened, dream it never could (after Gloria Camiruaga's film La venda)

Welcome back, King Tut (or, the nightmare's return)

Finale. Zanjón upon the water

Street corners of my heart (or, new kids on the block)

The abyss of sound

Census and the conquest (...and that pink wig under the bed?)

You're mine, girl

The transfiguration of Miguel Ángel (or, "faith moves mountains").

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

The essays by Pedro Lemebel in this book are taken from three works: Poco hombre, Loco afán, and La esquina es mi corazón.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Container of: Lemebel, Pedro. Poco hombre. Selections. English.

Container of: Lemebel, Pedro. Loco afán. Selections. English.

Container of: Lemebel, Pedro. Esquina es mi corazón. Selections. English.

Other Format:

Online version: Lemebel, Pedro. Last supper of queer apostles.

ISBN:

9780143137085

0143137085

OCLC:

1422092169