What is it about?
This paper looks at the call for a dialogue underlying Amos Oz’s autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness . As a peace activist , Oz depicts the Arab Palestinian under Israeli military occupation as a victim and reintroduces himself as a new, unorthodox Jew. In this context, the paper approaches the author-narrator’s message calling for a dialogue with the Palestinian other, albeit through a Chekhovian solution to an existentialist conflict entangling both the Arabs and the Jews over the Question of Palestine. Thanks to the complicity between the Western Colonial Project and the Zionist plan to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, most of the Palestinian population was expelled and dispossessed. Oz condemns that complicity and stands out as a Jewish voice for peace. His narrative discourse implies that he is crossing a minefield while trying to help resuscitate the current stale-mate peace process in the Middle East.
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Why is it important?
This academic paper is important as it sheds enough light on the need for a constructive dialogue between belligerent groups and communities to build peace.
Perspectives
Part of the enmity and antagonistic sentiments between individuals, groups and communities goes back to the absence of dialogue. This paper is a call on both the Palestinians and the Israelis to start a dialogue for the sake of building a lasting peace for the two peoples to live in peace, prosperity and mutual recognition. Palestine is big enough to accommodate this desire / dream.
IBRAHIM EL-HUSSARI
Lebanese American University
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This page is a summary of: Amos Oz inA Tale of Love and Darkness, Language and Dialogue, September 2020, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ld.00069.elh.
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