Abstract
Building on Henry Glassie’s assertion that “tradition is the creation of the future out of the past” (1999), folklorists have looked to tradition to see how people remember conflicted pasts and build hopeful futures. I extend this thread of scholarship, focusing on how three women use traditional skills—including gardening, sewing, cooking, and knitting—to reckon with the complexities of past, present, and future lives disrupted by the Bosnian war. Their understanding of temporality, as it emerges in their engagement with narrated landscapes and materials, is richly layered and raises questions about durability, ephemerality, affect, and folkloristic conceptions of tradition.
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Horigan, Kate Parker
(2024)
"Narrating Objects and Temporality in Postwar Bosnia,"
Narrative Culture: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/narrative/vol11/iss1/3