Week 12 - My Tender Matador
This week I read My Tender Matador. What I found most interesting about this book was how Lemebel uses names to create a sense of insecure positioning that encourages the reader to understand varying genders, sexualities, experiences and perspectives within Chilean society at the time. In My Tender Matador names are more than just identification, I interpreted them as indicators of the character's placement in society, literal spatial positioning, their gender as well as how they are viewed by others. Names are not only important to how we perceive these characters, but also how we sympathize to their experiences, identify discrimination towards them, and understand their struggles and how their positionality thus affects their perspective on the Chilean dictatorship. Additionally, as said in the lecture, Lemebel makes the choice to make a “loca” the main character of his novel, when these people are often heavily discriminated against, marginalized and disregarded. The...