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Between History and Memory: The Jashari Family Memorial in Prekaz (Kosovo)
This text offers a reading of the ways in which history and historical reasoning are integrated into memorialization practices in Kosovo, with a special focus on the Jashari family.
It demonstrates that as a dominant part of collective memory in Kosovo, the Jashari Family Memorial is a site of discursive and memorial acts as well as performative cultural practices in the service of the nation. It is a staple of collective memory and of the ways in which the past is represented and how its meaning is maintained through commemoration.
Seen as the "father of the KLA", Jashari is considered a symbol of Kosovar independence by ethnic Albanians.
The memorial has assumed the centre stage in the projection of the history of the Kosovo War; it has been made a new epic, serving as a source of state legitimacy and as a discourse to solidify the nation. The memorial is a place imbued with history, memory and organic national relations.
The memory of the Jashari family is not represented as one brutal incident in the history o
