NOTES ON THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF THE HAJJ, HIS ANTHROPOLOGIST, AND HER AMERICAN PASSPORT

Many Israeli representations of the Sinai have sought to preserve (or recreate?) a pastoral idyll of biblical wilderness in the midst of 20t h-century military occupation (1967-82). This article argues that such works are shaped by the Israeli discourses of Judaism, Zionism, and A rabism-discourses of diaspora, displacement, and marginalization. Coau thored by an old Mzeini Bedouin, an Israeli ethnographer, and her Amer ican spouse, the article aims at deterritorializing the boundaries of the Bedouin as a scholarly trope in such works by discursively retraci ng his mutated lived experience out of the final Eurocentric text. The ''native'' is thus positioned as literary critic of his Eurocentric t extual representation.