As pessoas dos livros e os livros das pessoas: uma etnografia sobre a produção e circulação de obras LGBTs

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the emergency of "LGBT literature books" promoted by authors, Publishing Houses and editors engaged on the process of its creation and perpetuation. The overall questions that guided the research were: what are the possible experiences that people develop from the books? How and why do they establish relationships with this object? In which way aspects of gender and sexuality became part of these links? What does the emergency or the new forms of naming such artifacts inform us? In order to pursue these questions, I have done fieldwork with participant observation in book releases, literary debates and “saraus” organized by several individuals in diverse spaces of the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Therefore, it was possible to apprehend the people of the books and the books of the people with the purpose to understand and explain the sense of their actions, responsible for creating a network of relations that aims to construct what I call "the world of LGBT books" in which objects, people and values circulate