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Scheherezade Goes West: A Performance
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 48, Number 2 (T 182), Summer 2004
- pp. 11-15
- Article
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Madmedea is an avatar of the fabled Scheherezade of the Arabian Nights, a response/challenge to Heiner Müller's texts, and more. "What could constitute an effective interruptive feminist performance to halt, reverse, and challenge the imperialist/patriarchal performances of globalized power and dominance in their postmodern capitalist permutations masquerading as a New World Order? In my performative identity as Muslim/South Asian/Other/Woman, how far can I really go (am permitted to go?) to jam the machinery, to interrupt business-asusual?"