Stone Speaker - Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (Hardcover, 1st ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	A. Buturovic
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-23946-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-312-23946-7
Barcode:	9780312239466

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