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Abstract

This research focuses upon the thesis that the writing undertakings on Wattpad, virtual literary self-publication platform, have been capable of following the expansion and popularization of literature under the electronic framework which contributes to an artistic mutation of literature that is both produced and presented in other formats. From a wide-range perspective, we intend to potentialize the critical thinking concerning the place occupied by electronic literature and its power to evolve throughout digital culture. In order to make it possible to get immersed into the abovementioned website, we chose as literary corpus works of two young wattpaders: the American Anna Todd, author of the saga After (2013) and the Brazilian Lúcia Lemos, responsible for the literary collection Aika (2015). The research carried out stimulated us to explore the hypotheses stated in this work specially due to the social network in which the authors have their texts published. In this context, our arguments are in harmony with theoretical concepts that circulate in the fields of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies and Digital Culture. Roger Chartier, Zygmunt Bauman and Pedro Barbosa are some of these experts whose writings were of capital importance for the development of this dissertation. Transfiguration per se, electronic literature promotes itself as it points to other materialities in the contemporary text as well as to the different ways to write, read and to connect to it.