Jos Mar a Rodr guez M ndez is a noted playwright, an acerbic cultural critic, and a political dissident under Franco. In Performing Spanishness, the first English-language examination of M ndez's life and work, Michael Thompson sets the playwright's lifelong struggle against censorship in the context of Spain's shifting national identity. M ndez's work presents 'Spanishness' not as a static trait, but as an ongoing performance; Performing Spanishness...