Literatura infanto-juvenil e diversidade sexual: um olhar sobre a produção contemporânea

Abstract

This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity. The overall objective is to analyze the different representations of gender and sexual diversity in children’s and young adult literature, so as to show how this difference is represented in the texture of the literary text. Moreover, we seek to explain how reading literary works that address this theme can contribute to the formation of contemporary readers. It is, therefore, a bibliographic and theoretical research, through which we undertake a hermeneutical exercise in relation to the narrative O menino que brincava de ser, by Georgina da Costa Martins.