Pedagogias do amor lésbico: discursos da literatura virtual

Abstract

Lesbian literature published on digital platforms conveys discourses and teaches ways of being and relating. This Thesis sought to understand which pedagogies work in virtual literature speeches, teaching forms of love between women. Therefore, the research approached post-structuralism and feminist theoretical-methodological framework, making dialogues between education, philosophy, and literature fields. The cut in the investigation proposed that the virtual literature investigated were the texts that deal with lesbian love published on the Wattpad and Amazon Kindle reading platforms. These texts, it is relevant to highlight, were taken as cultural pedagogies. The analysis of seven books of virtual lesbian literature, based on discursive recurrences present in excerpts taken from literary works, allowed the discussion of four statements in operation in the analyzed texts. The first understand lesbian love as erotic love, allowing us to understand the erotic power of love between women based on desire and sexual and non-sexual experiences between the characters. The second deals with lesbian love as war love, encompassing warlike practices of conquest, struggle, and self-protection, among others, that can approach certain practices of heterosexual love but cannot be equated with them. The third deals with lesbian love as work-love, insofar as love is seen as an action (and not as an inherent feeling that cannot be chosen) and, therefore, requires work to build a relationship based on companionship, respect, care, and frank dialogue. And finally, the fourth deals with lesbian love as self-love, given that the characters, based on their lesbian experience of love, constitute an ethical relationship with themselves and lead their conduct towards a way of life that brings them happiness. Thus, the investigative work found in operation in the virtual lesbian literature a set of statements in which love between women is constituted both in a perspective of the practice of freedom and ethical exercise and in ways that are closer to the idealizations of romantic love and its heteronormative perspective.