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Performing Spanishness : history, cultural identity and censorship in the theatre of Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez / Michael Thompson.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Available from 2007 until 2007. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Spanish drama.
- Machismo in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- Rodríguez Méndez, José María--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rodríguez Méndez, José María.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1.Dramatizing Spanishness; 2.Rodríguez Méndez's essays: realism, machismo español,inteligenciaespañolaand historical theatre; 3.History from below (1): enclosed spaces; 4.History from below (2): open spaces; 5.Leading roles in history; 6.Fading echoes of the past in contemporary Spain; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-224).
- ISBN:
- 9786610747672
- 9781280747670
- 1280747676
- 9781841509747
- 1841509744
- OCLC:
- 241061187
- Publisher Number:
- 9781841501345
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