Performed weeping: Drama and emotional management in women's wailing

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Abstract

The Jewish-Yemenite wailing is a “performed weeping” controlled by the expert wailer who uses special strategies to manage the audience's emotions. Questions of emotional sincerity and self-authenticity, especially in the context of death events, render an explanation for the decline of wailing in recent years.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)70-90
Number of pages21
JournalTDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies
Volume54
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2010

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