[Folkserv] [Compstall] Sarah Craycraft on International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov

[Shank, Barry]

It’s a very smart piece, Sarah. Here’s one of my favorite lines. “we are grappling at present with our own long-armed nostalgia, fracturing society into factions that could very much be diagnosed as temporal aspiration to escape the problems we have made for ourselves.”

Indeed, we are.

Barry

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Congratulations Sarah, great work! Miranda

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Subject: [Compstall] Sarah Craycraft on International Booker Prize winner Georgi Gospodinov

Alumna Sarah Craycraft offers folkloristic context for Time Shelter, by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov.  Gospodinov’s novel of how nostalgic time travel for Alzheimer's patients becomes a Europe-wide refuge from reality has just won the International Booker Priz<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/books/international-booker-prize-time-shelter.html__;!!KGKeukY!0ba8hxukPoY_SnoSNJm8gYt0wS0H6jSSC42PnwiK2yW3o1CCarqpfKzsWl6lJxJatS4W_iRdO1UH5bexgJ7bRoEoHRPr$>e. Sarah’s article<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/thecollectiveis.us/?p=6052__;!!KGKeukY!0ba8hxukPoY_SnoSNJm8gYt0wS0H6jSSC42PnwiK2yW3o1CCarqpfKzsWl6lJxJatS4W_iRdO1UH5bexgJ7bRsWNYLrm$> places the novel in conversation with Momata Barbi, an Instagram account, created by a young Bulgarian woman studying abroad, that dresses Barbie up in peasant costume and positions her against “traditional” backgrounds.

This fall, Sarah begins a three-year term as Head Tutor of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.




Dorothy Noyes
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Professor, English, Comparative Studies
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
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