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- Performance strategies are powerful coping mechanisms.
- In North African Female Performance there are distinct uses of the body in time and space: traditional dance, non-linear use of narratives, ritual, and the counter-hegemonic reading of history (Baxter, 204).
- + Thus, the performing body adapts itself to the project of re-producing. The female body is suspect because of its power.
- +(Baxter, 2004) suggests that the costumes delineate a site of permission, as with ritualized cross-dressing
Please answer the following discussion questions.
1 What are some performance strategies that North African female playwrights use?
2.What makes these specific performance powerful?
3. How is time and space used in the North African -Female Performance?
Khristie Prince.
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