Waiting for Elijah. Safet HadžiMuhamedović

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Название: Waiting for Elijah

Автор: Safet HadžiMuhamedović

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Биология

Серия: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings

isbn: 9781785338571

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

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. Centered 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.