{"id":1852,"date":"2025-06-23T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=theatre&p=1852"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:55:54","slug":"border-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/border-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong> This<\/span> work integrates theatre and gloss into a single piece, which was subsequently broken apart again for the purposes of publication. The two pieces, re-established \u201ctheatre\u201d and \u201cgloss,\u201d thus document a performative dialogue in which each author invited the other to act in specific ways; and, the dissolution and reconstitution of generic borders.<\/b> Laura P\u00e9rez Le\u00f3n\u2019s text is in plaintext; Amie Elizabeth Parry\u2019s text is in italics.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Diccionario de la Lengua Espa\u00f1ola<\/em> defines \u2018dilema\u2019 as: \u201cSituaci\u00f3n en la que es necesario elegir entre dos opciones igualmente buenas o malas.\u201d In philosophy, the term is defined as: \u201cArgumento formado por dos proposiciones contrarias disyuntivamente, de tal manera que, negada o concedida cualquiera de las dos, queda demostrada una determinada conclusi\u00f3n.\u201d Synonyms of \u2018dilema\u2019 include: disyuntiva, alternativa, problema, duda, encrucijada, opci\u00f3n.[1]<\/a> Antonyms encompass solution, certainty, straightforwardness, effortlessness, no bother, no trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Act<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For this exercise, we initially use the term \u2018border\u2019 as \u2018dilemma\u2019 aiming to reflect on self-perception and perception of other peoples as cultural and linguistic phenomena. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A border understood as a dilemma is a situation of crisis in which we must choose between monolithic, uniform, developed, rigid notions of culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, culture is a non-monolithic entity: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[\u2026] I have also developed arguments against a monolithic conception of culture and its shared hermeneutical resources that called into question blanket statements about the impossibility of expressing, understanding, or interpreting an experience, a problem, an identity, etc. [\u2026] For a pluralistic conception of social groups and cultures, it is problematic to say that it is impossible for an experience to be understood within a particular culture. Instead of focusing on complete success or failure, [\u2026] understanding oneself and others is a matter of trying as hard as one can, of paying attention to the emerging expressive and interpretative possibilities, no matter how inchoate or embryonic.\u201d[2]<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura\u2019s proposal is not to locate herself in the position of solving a dilemma that a border entails aiming for certainty, straightforwardness and effortlessness, but to pay attention to cultural diversity, heterogeneity, matters of degree to express, understand, interpret ourselves and others.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural perception allows the extremely imaginatively theatrical task of shaking disjuncts. I perceive myself from my culture. My culture is Mexican, American, Taiwanese, Chinese and so much more. I perceive myself from my language and language is shaped by my culture. I perceive other peoples from my culture. I perceive other peoples from my language and language is shaped by my culture. You speak Spanish, English, Taiwanese, Chinese and so much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Special Scene <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amie dear, I would like you to go to the blue track of the university, and respond to the questions: How do you perceive yourself? How do you perceive other people? How do you perceive Laura?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> <\/a>https:\/\/dle.rae.es\/dilema?m=form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> Jos\u00e9 Medina \u201cVarieties of Hermeneutical Injustice\u201d in The Routledge Handbook Of Epistemic Injustice<\/em> (New York and London: Routledge, 2017), 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amie dear, I would like you to go to the blue track of the university, and respond to the questions: How do you perceive yourself? How do you perceive other people? How do you perceive Laura?","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres\/1852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/theatre"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}