José María Rodríguez Méndez is a noted playwright, an acerbic cultural critic, and a political dissident under Franco. In Performing Spanishness, the first English-language examination of Méndez’s life and work, Michael Thompson sets the playwright’s lifelong struggle against censorship in the context of Spain’s shifting national identity. Méndez’s work presents ‘Spanishness’ not as a static trait, but as an ongoing performance; Performing Spanishness is an indispensable resource to those interested in theater, Spain, and the relationship between art and activism.
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Michael Thompson is a senior research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. He is also an associate fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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