Author : A. Buturovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 031229915X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis Stone Speaker by : A. Buturovic
Download or read book Stone Speaker written by A. Buturovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.