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Feminist Africa Issue 21 (2016)

Dreadlocks as a Symbol of Resistance: Performance and Reflexivity

By

Tendai Mutukwa

Performance auto-ethnography, an interdisciplinary qualitative research praxis, combines auto-ethnography and performance studies as a system of enquiry. Auto-ethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to systematically describe and analyse personal experience, or autobiography, in order to understand a wider cultural context (Spry, 2001:707). Performance auto-ethnography takes the embodied form of narration and performance in front of an audience.

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