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A Machine out of Order: Indifferentiation in David Mamet's The Disappearance of the Jews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

J. A. Nelson
Affiliation:
Jeanne-Andrée Nelson is Associate Professor of French and and Literature in the Department of Arts and Humanities at Stockton State College in Pomona, New Jersey 08240, USA.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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