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A Jew in the Dark: The Aesthetics of Absence—Monodrama as Evocation and Formation of ‘Genetic’ Collective Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Gad Kaynar
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This is the story of a Jew from Israel, who dreams that he is a Marrano priest in Spain, who dreams that he is a Jew in Israel.… And as the reader stands between these mirrors.… and looks at the faces doubly reflected all around, there is certainly no need to tell him whose face he is seeing.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 53 - 63
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2000

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Notes

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4. Ibid., p. 222.

5. Iser's ‘implied reader’ is a ‘hollow structure’ in the textual scheme which the reader has to occupy. See Ibid., pp. 61 & 66.

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