Мiddlebrow култура и женска еманципација у романескном опусу Љубице П. Радоичић
Women’s Emancipation and Middlebrow Culture in the Ljubica P. Radoičić’s Novelistic Oeuvre

Summary/Abstract: 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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