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EXTENDED PERFORMANCE.
The Kenyan novelist, playwright, journalist, and academic Ngugi wa Thiong'o has written provocatively, in his book of essays "Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams" (1998), about "performance"--not merely theatrical action, as in the performance of a play, but "any action that assumes an audience during the actualization." He cited in illustration the exercise of political power, which involves "variations on the performance theme." A 1999 interview with Charles Cantalupo, a Penn State professor, elicited this elaboration:
"So much in society depends on 'performance.' It provides new insights into certain behaviors. It is central to so many things. For example, you ...
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