Romance novel in Scarlett O’Hara’s manner: Ana Žube, Ne traži me u sebi (Don’t search for me inside yourself, 1985)

U radu se, analizom jednoga od romana 70-ih i 80-ih godina 20. stoljeća na prostorima bivše Jugoslavije popularne spisateljice trivijalnih priča i romana Ana Žube, pokušavaju ocrtati opće konture autoričine poetike. Polazeći od određenja trivijalne književnosti unutar konteksta popularne kulture i propitivanja (eventualne) semantičke izjednačenosti pojmova kao što su ljubić i romansa, roman se u prvome redu iščitava pokušajem primjene obrasca tzv. „idealne romanse“ američke teoretičarke Janice Radway. Analizom romana utvrđuju se stanoviti otkloni od zadane forme unutar koje funkcionira klasičan ljubić, pa se na taj način Žubina poetika (re)pozicionira unutar konteksta onovremenih hrvatskih i svjetskih književnih trendova: zaokreta prema trivijalnim žanrovima, feminističke poetike i tzv. ženskog pisma.Analysing one of the novels published in former Yugoslavia in the 1970-ies and 1980-ies, written by a popular trivial stories and novels writer Ana Žube, the paper attempts to outline general contours of the author’s poetics. Starting from a definition of trivial literature within the context of popular culture and questioning of (possible) semantic equation of terms such as romance novel and romance, the novel is primarily read by attempting to apply the pattern of the so called “ideal romance” by an American theoretician Janice Radway. Certain deviations from a set form in which a classic romance novel functions are identified by analysis of the novel, so in that way Žube’s poetics is (re)positioned within the context of the then Croatian and world literary trends: a turn towards trivial genres, feminist poetics and the so called women’s writing