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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes--Bosnia and Herzegovina--Religious aspects.

Landscapes.

Landscapes--Social aspects--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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

Elijah the Prophet's Day.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Civilization.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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

Gacko (Bosnia and Herzegovina : Opština).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : 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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-291-4

1-78533-857-9