By Michael Thompson
Jos? Mar?a Rodr?guez M?ndez is a famous playwright, an acerbic cultural critic, and a political dissident less than Franco. In acting Spanishness, the 1st English-language exam of M?ndez’s lifestyles and paintings, Michael Thompson units the playwright’s lifelong fight opposed to censorship within the context of Spain’s moving nationwide id. M?ndez’s paintings offers “Spanishness” no longer as a static trait, yet as an ongoing functionality; appearing Spanishness is an quintessential source to these drawn to theater, Spain, and the connection among artwork and activism.
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To some extent, the system relies upon the coercive action of public ‘Repressive State Apparatuses’ (government, armed forces, police, and judicial, penal and administrative structures) to keep in line those who fail to be properly constituted as obedient subjects, but consensus is mostly constructed through ‘Ideological State Apparatuses’ (ISAs), which operate in both the public and private domains creating the imaginary representations that construct subject positions: religious institutions, education systems, the family, legal institutions, political parties, trade unions, the mass media, cultural institutions (1984: 17).
On learning recently of the contents of some of the censorship files on his texts, Rodríguez Méndez has declared himself to be surprised that the censors could have considered his work such a threat. He clearly believes that theatre has a social function, a responsibility to ‘establecer una cierta radiografía de la sociedad en que me ha tocado la gracia de vivir’ (1968b: 17) (‘to produce a kind of X-ray of the society in which I find myself’), and my analysis of plays in Chapters 3 to 6 aims to show exactly what they imply about Francoism and how the censors interpreted their political relevance.
11. ‘Ultimately, Castilianness is the same as casticismo’. 12. ‘My theatre is always about Spanish society. ’ 13. ’ 14. ’ 15. Mixtificación is a variant spelling of mistificación. The sense of mistificar here is falsification or deformation (Real Academia Española 1992: 1382). 16. ’ Costumbrismo refers to the depiction in literature, theatre or visual arts of the customs and dress of particular regions. The term has connotations of superficiality, conventionality and concentration on the merely picturesque.