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An Introduction

Pressure Points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Leon J. Hilton  and
Jasmine Johnson
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Abstract

Performances and performative instantiations respond to the urgencies of “pressure” and its effects. What is the work of performance when wrung by such pressures as financial constraint, racial subordination, misogyny, and sexism?

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TDR Brown Consortium Section
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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 8 - 14
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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