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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Connecting the Holocaust and the Nakba Through Photograph-Based Storytelling: Willing the Impossible

Connecting the Holocaust and the Nakba Through Photograph-Based Storytelling: Willing the Impossible

Musleh-Motut, Nawal

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3031272374
ISBN13: 9783031272370
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 16 2023
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This unprecedented ethnographic study introduces a unique photography-based storytelling method that brings together everyday Palestinians and Israelis to begin connecting rather than comparing their distinct yet organically connected histories of suffering and exile resulting from the Holocaust and the Nakba. Working with Palestinians and Israelis living in their respective Canadian diasporas who are of the Holocaust and Nakba postmemory generations-those who did not experience these traumas but are nonetheless haunted by them-this study demonstrates that storytelling and photography enable the occasions and conditions of possibility necessary for willing the impossible. That is, by narrating and then exchanging their (post)memories of the Holocaust and/or the Nakba through associated vernacular photographs, project participants were able to connect rather than compare their histories of suffering and exile; take moral, ethical, and political responsibility for one another; and imagine new forms of cohabitation grounded in justice and equitable rights for all.

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