"The Dilemma in Leftist Zionist Literary Discourse and Colonial Theories: Textual Argumentation and Ideology through Amos Oz's 'A Tale of Love and Darkness'" as a model

The aim of this study is to study and analyze the literary discourse of "Amos Oz," the leftist Zionist writer, and to investigate the crisis of this discourse in the context of textual argumentation and ideology. It takes "A Tale of Love and Darkness" as a model, since it is a Zionist discourse that is described as colonial. The tale entirely embodies a narrative, cultural and ideological work, representing a latent, mysterious, and ambiguous colonial vision associated with colonial and post-colonial contexts charged with cultural, historical, and religious aspects. This discourse seeks to introduce both overt and sometimes covert colonial conceptions. The research problem lies in the deconstruction of this discourse with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian status amid the ongoing conflict over identity, place, history, and heritage. It examines texts with historical and cultural aspects within the framework of the political establishment to reveal linguistic textual aspects and identify the mutual relationship between the text, society, event construction, character development, history, conflict management, and cultural hegemony in colonial and post-colonial era. What we mean by colonization in the Zionist leftist literary discourse which exceeds military colonization to cultural invasion, historical supremacy and cultural hegemony.
The study raises several questions on how leftist Colonialist, Zionist and literary discourse presents a culturally disguised discourse to the reader and the world under the impacts of minor and major narrative events and historical developments in determining the ideology and promotion of the state of Israel. To answer this research question, the study adopted the colonial and post-colonial theory, as well as cultural criticism. The study is divided into two chapters. The first chapter discusses the foundations of reading of Amos Oz's text in the context of colonial theories, while the second chapter focuses on the discourse, dialectics and ideology of the text. Following analysis of the minor and major narrative elements, the study revealed the risks and dangers of (exclusion and substitution). This involves exclusion of the narratives of the "other" Palestinian Arab and their existence and connection to their land, place, and history as well as exclusion of opposing narratives by marginalizing and decentralizing them. Then cultural and historical narratives, of the Zionist Jewish self-entity, surpasses them and becomes (Central before Marginal) and (Civilized before Uncivilized)