Women’s emancipation and Middlebrow culture in the Ljubica P. Radoičić’s novelistic oeuvre
This paper’s starting point is to examine the evolution of the novelistic oeuvre of Ljubica P. Radoičić (1914–1991), which consists of the novels The Blood Wakes Up (1932), Dana Račić (1938) and One-Storey Houses (1954). Relying on the previous research related to the life and work of the a...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2024/0350-08612403171B.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper’s starting point is to examine the evolution of the novelistic
oeuvre of Ljubica P. Radoičić (1914–1991), which consists of the novels The
Blood Wakes Up (1932), Dana Račić (1938) and One-Storey Houses (1954).
Relying on the previous research related to the life and work of the author,
and Jelena Milinković’s theoretical explanations of interwar women’s
(popular) novels, the paper initially indicates the atypical position of
each of the mentioned novels within the current novel production at the time
of publication. The paper does this primarily concerning the atypical
features of the main character, the uncommon emancipatory (pseudo-feminist)
discourse, and, the peculiarity of narrative style built between the spheres
of highbrow and popular literature. The paper aims to determine the position
of each novel concerning the subgenres that inspired the author: romance,
female Bildungsroman, serial adventure novel, and 19th-century naturalistic
(family) novel. Based on the given analysis, the concluding thesis of the
paper suggests that the most comprehensive methodological approach to the
given novelistic oeuvre is possible to find in the frame and analytical
concepts of middlebrow literature and middlebrow culture. The three novels’
narrative devices, style, and characterization appear less atypical and more
meaningful in this methodological and transnational frame. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |