Cultural Shouts of Legitimation: Theater and Chronicle of the Late Century in Front of the Chilean Society

Abstract

This research aims to put in evidence the strategies of insistence and resistance of dissident masculinities in the theater and urban chronicle of the late twentieth century, positioning theses discourses as some of the cultural territories in which the need for visibility and legitimation of the diverse sexualities is disputed, within the heteronormous context of a violent, discriminatory and traditional Chilean society. A selection of chronicles by Pedro Lemebel (1955-2015) is reviewed, making a parallel reading with the work La huida (2000) by Andrés Perez Araya (1951-002), considering for this research the critical nodes: gender, subject/body, and writing as creative bases for the concretion of the dissident discourse.