Waiting for Elijah : time and encounter in a Bosnian landscape / Safet HadziMuhamedovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet, author.

Series:

Articulating journeys : festivals, memorials, and homecomings.

Articulating journeys : festivals, memorials, and homecomings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elijah the Prophet's Day.

Landscapes--Social aspects.

Landscapes.

Gacko (Bosnia and Herzegovina : Opština)--Historical geography.

Gacko (Bosnia and Herzegovina : Opština).

Landscapes--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Religious aspects.

Landscapes--Social aspects--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Elijah the Prophet's Day--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Physical Description:

XVI, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

"Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world's most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centred on the shared harvest feast of Elijah's Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation - waiting to wait - becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism and embodied memories of proximity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Schizochronotopia or Elijah's pitfall

Time and home

Time and in-other

Time and epic residues

Prelude : a river of many names

The georgics : an extended poetry of the land

Conclusion : waiting for Elijah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: HadžiMuhamedović, Safet, author. Waiting for Elijah

ISBN:

9781785338564

1785338560

OCLC:

1010626006