Memorie e luoghi di Eretz Israel e di Filastin

ESU, AIDE

2007-01-01

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Abstract

During the long span of the conflict, Israel and Palestine, have create a complex patchwork of memory narratives. They deal with different representations of the same landscape focusing on multiple narratives and visions of territory. The term “territory” carries various perceptions: physical, social, cultural, religious and psychological. We analyze how the two peoples expand their identity narrative and how they knit collective memory, the multiple visions from space to individual memory. We focus the attention on both narratives looking at the two myths of return, Kfar Etzion and Al Nakba. For both, the space is the imagined and the dreamt land. The 1948 war is the crucial event: the Zionist movement realize the dream of the return and the Palestinians severed the ties with their land. This opposite movement of the peoples with the land has deep implications for the elaborations of memory as well as for the elements with which they nourish the narratives.