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Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar

By Amila Buturovic

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0312239467, 9780312239466
LCC
PG1618.D57 Z57 2002
Open Library ID
OL3955399M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5002895 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
240\240
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The poet Mak Dizdar has become a cultural icon in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina. Inspired by the lapidary imagery and epitaphs of medieval Bosnian tombstones, his best-acclaimed collection of poetry, Stone Sleeper, reawakens the medieval voices in the historical imagination of contemporary Bosnians. Amila Buturovic looks at Stone Sleeper 's recovery of the ancestral world as an effort to refashion the sentiments of collective belonging. In treating the medieval tombstones as sites of collective memory, Dizdar’s poetry evokes new possibilities for Bosnians to cast aside national differences based on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia. The book includes a bilingual appendix of Dizdar's poetry with an introduction by the translator, Francis Jones.

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