O homoerotismo na literatura infantil: análises e reflexões sobre as histórias não contadas na hora do conto

Abstract

This research describes and discusses the existence of children's literature with homoerotic theme for children from zero to five years old in Brazilian publications. It aims to analyze the publications and understand how these literatures works not only in the social environment, but especially in education. A total amount of 42 Brazilian and foreign books that talk about homoeroticism have been acquired from research in specific sites and online bookstores. After their acquisition, the following procedures were carried out: first, the 42 publications were analyzed and among them national ones were chosen to be used into the study. In order to find the most suitable national publications that correlates the theme and the age range of this research, categories to classify the most relevant ones were used; such as: publication of Brazilian authors edited in Brazil; publication suitable age for the age group from zero to five years of age; stories and texts in context, short, succinct and objective; appropriate illustrations for children; stereotyping of characters; message transmitted through history - 'beneficial' action and number of pages. At the end, only six publications fulfilled these requirements. In order to carry out this survey, concepts about the difference in a poststructuralist approach to make approximations with the thought of Michel Foucault and other authors such as Judith Butler and Blonde Candy are taking into consideration. It also looks for support in Cultural Studies to understand the sexual plurality observed nowadays, as well as, its social, moral, religious conflicts, political and cultural conflicts. It is a bibliographical research of qualitative character, based on the Content Analysis Method, while the organizational method and publication analysis were done to drive a constant process of all stages resumption. For such, Veiga-Neto’s strongly critical was chosen to analyze each one of publications found, primarily the national ones that fitted to the age group from zero to five years old. Through this research it has been possible to realize the scarcity of children's literature involving the homoeroticism and the fact that authors and publishers do not register on cataloguing data the story subject matter. This research found that many of these publications are used for family affairs; adoption; artifacts sayings of the feminine universe or male and ' beneficial ' action to address the sexualities, specifically homoerotic themes, and compensate the mannerisms of the characters depicted in the publications and running from society heterosexualization. The research discusses the lack of this kind of social literature, which could make the debate about different genre since childhood, minimizing the homophobic feeling