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Publication details [#33884]

Beeman, William. 2003. Performative symbols and their relative non-arbitrariness: Representing women in Iranian traditional theater. Semiotica 145 (1-4) : 1–19.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | representational structure | symbol | theater

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0037-1998

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper examines the concept of ‘performative symbols’ via an investigation of the presentation of gender identity in two different forms of Iranian traditional theatre.