Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar

by Francis Jones, Amila Buturović, A. Buturovic

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312239467
• ISBN13: 9780312239466
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"