Da Internet para as livrarias: as trajetórias de escritoras de fanfics rumo ao mercado editorial.

Abstract

This dissertation proposes a study about the motivations and strategies that fanfic writers who want to be professionally published use to enter the publishing market in Brazil. To illustrate this phenomenon, it was necessary to build a walk through the social trajectory of three Brazilian serial romances authors, who initiated their careers writing fanfictions on the Internet, them being: Carolinha Munhóz, Babi Dewet and Ray Tavares. The enthusiasm that initiated the process of this research was the perception that fanfictions today stopped being just a story created by a fan based in another product from popular culture and it became a literary subgenre built on the Internet, that is, a specific format of producing and consuming serial sentimentalists narratives, and that authors are using this space as a mechanism for practicing their writing to fulfill their wish of publishing their books professionally. In this context, it is seeked to comprehend how fandom contributes to the creation and development of skills of fans producing literary fiction and how this unfolds into possible careers in the Brazilian literary market and in other associates, such as serial fiction for television and the Internet. The objective of analyzing the trajectories of the selected writers through Pierre Bourdieu's methodology was to understand these trajectories, emphasizing the relationship between their motivations and their difficulties and achievements. We sought to map the habitus acquired by these writers along the positions they occupied in order to relate them to the choices they made to acquire recognition and consecration that would collaborate with their insertion in the literary field. The effort to conceptualize fans and derived productions from fandoms was theoretically reasoned with the contributions of Jenkins (1992; 2009), Hills (2005), Sandvoss (2005) and Lessa (2017), and for understandment about the fanfiction phenomenon Vargas (2005), Jamison (2017) and researches from the A-Tevê group (Laboratory of Telefiction Analysis) from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in special the publications of Souza and co-authors (2015; 2017). Then, a study was developed about the Brazilian literary market, the book production chain and the ways to publish professionally in Brazil, seeking to understand how the market and publishers' view of fanfic creators can interfere in the trajectory of those who want to become a professional. The social trajectory analysis was built with a compilation of informations obtained from the authors interviews for press vehicles, videos in their Youtube channels and other contents in social media. The efforts of this research show how the phenomenon of using the Internet as a mechanism to practice writing and create an engaged community of readers has shaped itself as a path for the publication of serial novels and other products in the literary market. It is hoped that this dissertation can contribute to research aimed at fans and participatory culture in Brazil and the growing literary movement on the Internet, made up especially by the segment of authors who publish with the intention of entering the publishing market.