Search scenarios. Women who embroidered the shores of the sea

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the dramatic text My Grandmother Embroidered the Shores of the Sea (2023) by Sinaloa-born stage creator Teresa Díaz del Guante, a benchmark of liminal dramaturgy surrounding forced disappearances and necropolitics in Mexico. The playwright's text was born as a gesture of care and restoration following a process of research and stage creation on forced disappearances in our country, derived from her trilogy "Proyecto Aroma. Dramaturgies of the Search," begun in 2018 and published in 2024.

In this regard, it is interesting to situate the work in relation to the theoretical corpus proposed by Ileana Diéguez in Bodies Liminales. The Performativity of the Search (2021), which refers to the recognition and problematization of bodily and liminal knowledge that lies outside of academia and is part of the search praxis of both individuals and collectives made up of relatives of people disappeared by the State and organized crime. Finally, Díaz del Guante's dramatic text becomes a pertinent reference for analyzing the representation strategies she employs to avoid objectifying absence and also avoid neglecting the enunciation of the violent disappearance of people in our country. That is, the possibility of moving narratives from pain to the multiple ways of sustaining life, in a living and resistant communitas.