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Performed Weeping: Drama and Emotional Management in Women's Wailing

Tova Gamliel
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2010) 54 (2 (T206)): 70–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.70
Published: 01 June 2010
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.
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