Kalina Yordanova: The war as a dirty job assigned to heroes
K2.0 talks to Yordanova on transgenerational trauma and the imagery of war.
|11.07.2025
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While official history aims for coherence, linearity, and national identity formation, individual memory, especially when shaped by trauma, is fragmented, silenced or unsymbolized.
Yordanova has spent the past 15 years exploring how second-generation individuals, born after the war, confront the weight of transgenerational trauma. Photo: Courtesy of Kalina Yordanova.
Transgenerational identifications are reinforced by patriarchal structures: girls identify with their mothers' protective roles at home, while boys adopt their father's emotional stance that blends heroism with horror.
Valmira Rashiti
Valmira Rashiti is an editor at K2.0. She has a bachelor’s degree in Law and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Prishtina.
This story was originally written in Albanian.