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Call Me Dov/Khaldūn/Ze'ev/Badīr: Issues of Language and Speech in Two Recent Israeli Re-workings of Ghassān Kanafānī's Returning to Haifa

Abstract This study examines Sami Michael's novel Yonim be-Ṭrafalgar (Pigeons at Trafalgar Square, 2005) and Bo'az Gaon's play, Ha-Shiva le-Ḥaifa (The Return to Haifa), two recent Israeli intertextual responses to Ghassān Kanafānī's 1969 novella ‘Ā’id ilāḤayfā (translated as Returning to Haifa,1984). Both pieces are based explicitly on Kanafānī's novella, while reconstructing major themes, and inflecting small details. This study pinpoints how the Hebrew texts re-form and alter the ‘original’, and how the novella, in turn, can be read as ‘inviting’ such responses. It focuses on issues of language raised by all three texts, and, by extension, on the role of voice and direct speech. It reveals such issues as being at the crux of the intertextual discourse engendered by the re-writings of this novella. Some general linguistic points reify the connection between these texts, and are thus an apt prism for analysing and comparing them.