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Rewriting the History of Hatred in Paula Vogel’s Indecent

This study explores how Paula Vogel’s Indencent rewrites the history of hatred and envisions a space for embracing the Other. Reviving Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play, God of Vengeance, and the history surrounding it, Vogel’s play represents anti-Semitism, homophobia, the suppression of art, the Holocaust, and the Red Scare. Vogel especially deconstructs dominant ideologies which underpin the hatred and oppression of the Other. In doing so, she remembers the oppressed and mourns for all the victims of hatred. Through the repetitive performance of historical events, Vogel’s play dramatizes the possibility of reconstructing history. Likewise, as the love scene between two women, Rifkele and Manke, in particluar, is repeatedly enacted, the play dismantles the gender binary and reconceptualizes gender. In this way, Vogel creates theater as a site for incubating histories in process and generating a new narrative of embracing the Other.