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The poet Mak Dizdar, who died in 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 how "Stone Sleeper" recovers the ancestral world as an effort to re-fashion 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Stone Speaker
• Subtitle: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar
• Author: Amila Buturovic
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9780312239466
• ISBN: 9780312239466
• ID: 06546348
• Publisher: Palgrave USA
• Weight: 445 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2002

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