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| Titel: |
Zionism and the Disenchanted: the plight of the citizen-soldier in Amos Oz's A Perfect Peace |
| Auteur: |
Omer-Sherman, Ranen |
| Verschenen in: |
Middle Eastern literatures |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 8 (2005) nr. 1 pagina's 53-71 |
| Jaar: |
2005-01 |
| Inhoud: |
Characters in the rich fictional universe of Israeli novelist Amos Oz often venture into the liminal space of the desert. In A Perfect Peace the kibbutz and the wilderness embody the Apollonian and Dionysian polarities of Israeli culture. In this novel, the plot centres around the internal crisis of Yonatan Lifshitz, a young man raised in a kibbutz situated near the ruins of Sheikh Dahr, an Arab village destroyed during Israel's 1948 War for Independence. The fact of that destruction is a quiet but commanding presence throughout the novel, for when a young man raised in the certitude of Zionism wakens to the reality that his comfort hinges on the dispossessed Arab Other, he suffers a violent existential shock, causing him to flee toward an uncertain fate in the desert. In Oz's apparent challenge to the colonialist dimension of the Zionist enterprise, he seems to anticipate boldly what has been identified as the post-Zionist spirit of Israel's youngest writers. Yet as the interior logic of the novel unfolds, the reader cannot be certain whether Oz is prepared to sanction fully the political implications of his character's troubled awakening. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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