Stone speaker : medieval tombs, landscape, and Bosnian identity in the poetry of Mak Dizdar / by Amila Buturović ; with translations by Francis R. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buturović, Amila, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dizdar, Mak--Criticism and interpretation.

Dizdar, Mak.

Dizdar, Mak. Poems--Selections.

Criticism and interpretation.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--In literature.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ethnicity in literature.

Physical Description:

229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-223) and index.

ISBN:

0312239467

OCLC:

48390664