The Third Generation after Nakba: Post-memory as Balancing “in-between” Indexal and Symbolic Communication Cover Image

Trzecie pokolenie Palestynek po Nakbie Postpamięć jako balansowanie „pomiędzy” komunikacją indeksalną i symboliczną
The Third Generation after Nakba: Post-memory as Balancing “in-between” Indexal and Symbolic Communication

Author(s): Marcela Kościańczuk
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: post-memory; third generation; Palestinian women; Nakba; indexal communication; symbolic communication;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the findings of research carried out in Palestine with the use of the tools of visual anthropology. The analysis demonstrates the potential of the application of the concepts of “the third generation” and “post-memory” to describe the experience of young Palestinian women. The argument focuses upon the strategies resorted to by women who, in the course of the study, agreed to present the key values that they profess, and consented to share them publicly in the form of a photo-interview. Their narratives are presented in the context of the reinterpretation of the events of the Nakba.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 187-206
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish