Diversidad sexual y de género en novelas mediúmnicas brasileras del siglo XXI

Abstract

This doctoral thesis addresses ten Brazilian mediumistic novels from the 21st century about the categories of sexual and gender diversity that exist in them. Nine novels are spiritualist because the name of the spirit that spoke to the medium and dictated its narrative is clear; a single novel does not have the name of the spirit that dictated it, therefore it is spiritualist. The category of sexual diversity common to all of them is the “love” experienced in homosexual couples, both male and female. The categories of sexual diversity, for example, “ultrasexual” and so on, acquire and make sense in the evolution-reincarnation binomial, which is what this thesis defends: that the evolution-reincarnation dyad explains any category of sexual and gender diversity. Thus, in spiritualism you can be a person with any type of sexual orientation or gender identity because, because the spirit is asexual, it acquires the sex that it wants to experience and evolve in its current and next reincarnation. This thesis uses qualitative-comparative methodology, as it resorts to the analysis of categories of sexual and gender diversity that the spirits dictate to their mediums in the novels and compares them all among themselves. It was discovered that "love" is the category of sexual and gender diversity most used in narrative stories, since "love", in addition to being a feeling that comes to life between relationships of couples of dissident sexual orientation and gender identity different from that of birth, it is also the force and action that unites them, makes them stay together and take care of each other, as is the case of serodiscordant couples, in which the seronegative couple cares, out of love, to their HIV-positive partner.