Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak DizdarSpringer, 31. mai 2002 - 230 sider The Poet Mak Dizdar (d.1971) 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 and assigns them a new role in the historical imagination of contemporary Bosnians. In this study, 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 primarily on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia. |
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Imagining Bosnia Of Texts and Contexts | 15 |
The Archeology of the Stećak Historical and Cultural Considerations | 51 |
The Ancestral Voices Speak Mak Dizdars Stone Sleeper | 81 |
Mapping the Bosnian Identity Sacred Space Rootedness and Continuity in Stone Sleeper | 127 |
Translating Spiritual SpaceTime Recreating Kameni Spava269 in English by Francis R Jones with Bilingual Selections from Stone Sleeper | 165 |
Notes | 199 |
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allows appear argues associated became becomes belonging Bogomil Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Bosnian culture Catholic cemeteries central century Christian Church collective complex construction contemporary continuity critical cultural dead death despite discussed Dizdar’s epitaphs ethnic Europe example existence experience expressed fact geographical ground groups hand historical human identity imagination important individual internal interpretation Islam land landscape language lines linguistic literary literature living Long meaning medieval memory modes motif Muslim myth narrative nationhood nature never object once original Ottoman past physical poem poetic poetry points political practice present Press question reader reading reference reflects region relations religious representation rhetoric roots sacred Sarajevo seems sense shared social space spatial speaks spiritual stedak Stone Sleeper suggests symbolic takes tension territorial tion tradition translation treated trope turned understanding University voice writes