Facingdisgrace: Coetzee and the Israeli intellectual¹

“Mastery Regained”—israeli Jewish Sovereignty and Space in the Israeli Novel 1967–1973

“…As opposed to the national Zionist concept of Jewish history as an unbroken continuum, the native Canaanite view imagines a community centred on territory, a shared space. 60 The Canaanite view completely divorces itself from the ambivalent symbiotic bond between Zionism and the Jewish religion. The Orchard creates a typical Zionist story, a chronicle of transition from exile to the Land of Israel, centring on the figure of Daniel.…”