Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword to the Paperback Edition
Marko Živković
Introduction
PART I: TIME AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Chapter 1. Schizochronotopia or Elijah's Pitfall
Chapter 2. Time and Home
Chapter 3. Time and In-Other
Chapter 4. Time and Epic Residues
PART II: THE MANY FACES OF ELIJAH
Prelude: A River of Many Names
Chapter 5. The Georgics: An Extended Poetry of the Land
Conclusion: Waiting for Elijah
Bibliography
Index
