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Desanka Maksimovic’s Engaged Medical Novel "The Open Window" (1954): Tuberculosis as a Social(ist) Issue

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Desanka Maksimovic’s Engaged Medical Novel The Open Window (1954): Tuberculosis as a Social(ist) Issue The Open Window (1954) is a novel written by the critically acclaimed and renowned poet Desanka Maksimovic and continues in the same vein as her pre-war socially engaged short stories. It shows a possible new form of engagement not only in the author’s own work but also in Yugoslav literature in general. The initial hypothesis of this paper is that Maksimovic – by intentionally choosing the genre of thethesis novel, and by shaping (consciously or unconsciously) the genre ofder Arztroman or the medical novel – takes part in a tradition of popular genres which hybridizes enlightenment with entertainment. The aims of this paper are a) to define the given genres and place The Open Window within the traditions mentioned above; b) to define and analyze the novel’s representation of tuberculosis; c) to explain how the author placed the subject of this contagious disease and its epidemic spread throughout the Kingdom of Yugoslavia into the frame of the debate between conservative and emancipatory social movements.Zaangazowana powiesc medyczna Desanki Maksimovic Otwarte okno (1954). Gruzlica jako problem socjal(istycz)nyOtwarte okno (1954) to powiesc cenionej przez krytyke poetki Desanki Maksimovic, która wpisuje sie w nurt pisanych przez nia przed wojna zaangazowanych spolecznie opowiadan. Powiesc wyznacza nie tylko nowy kierunek zaangazowania autorki w obrebie jej wlasnej twórczosci, lecz takze w literaturze jugoslowianskiej w ogóle. Wstepna hipoteza artykulu jest taka, ze Maksimovic – wybierajac gatunek powiesci z teza i (swiadomie lub nie) ksztaltujac gatunek der Arztroman czy tez powiesci medycznej – wpisuje sie w tradycje gatunków popularnych, które lacza nauke z rozrywka. Celem artykulu jest: a) zdefiniowanie danych gatunków i umiejscowienie Otwartego okna w ramach wymienionych tradycji; b) zdefiniowanie i przeanalizowanie obrazu gruzlicy w powiesci; c) wyjasnienie, w jaki sposób autorka wpisala temat tej zakaznej choroby i jej epidemii w Królestwie Jugoslawii w ramy debaty miedzy konserwatywnymi i emancypacyjnymi ruchami spolecznymi.

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