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Performed Weeping: Drama and Emotional Management in Women's Wailing
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 54, Number 2, Summer 2010 (T 206)
- pp. 70-90
- Article
- Additional Information
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.