My Grandmother Drank the Qur'an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia. Issue 1 (April 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- My Grandmother Drank the Qur'an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia. Issue 1 (April 2021)
- Main Title:
- My Grandmother Drank the Qur'an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia
- Authors:
- HadžiMuhamedović, Safet
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Starting with a curious childhood memory, the author considers the practices of imbibing – or otherwise transforming and internalising – sacred texts as modes of reading in their own right. At the heart of the argument is a call for a receptive apprehension of reading, open to worlds beyond substance dualism and the detachment of text and meaning residing therein. Kaleidoscopic autobiographical elements merge with and extend through a variety of transmutational, syncretic practices, such as the rituals of 'erasure' (e.g. kombe ) across the African continent, or the magical inscriptions ( zapisi ) and the ritual of 'horror pouring' ( salivanje strave ) in Bosnia. Water appears as a particularly efficacious agent, flowing between humans and more-than-humans and connecting different bodies, religions, and forms of knowledge. Noticing that the recurring motif of such practices is healing, the author wonders if the drinking of text might be a remedy against the political ontology of inter-corporeal distance. A radically intimate engagement with text, it is suggested, requires the kind of trust that allows for permeability – an always-potential openness, a new sort of liquid critical reading.
- Is Part Of:
- CounterText. Volume 7:Issue 1(2021:Apr.)
- Journal:
- CounterText
- Issue:
- Volume 7:Issue 1(2021:Apr.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 7, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0007-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 73
- Page End:
- 89
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04
- Subjects:
- liquid -- drinking -- permeable -- text -- trust -- reading -- Bosnia -- anthropology -- syncretism
English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Culture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
820.9 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/count ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/count.2021.0216 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2056-4406
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- Legaldeposit
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