This study explores the relationships of El año en que nací (The Year I Was Born) (2012) by the Argentine Lola Arias, within the social context of post-dictatorship Chile. Chile was characterized by a repressed and traumatized population whose governments aimed to depoliticize society in an effort to avoid the presumed cause of Augusto Pinochet's seventeen-year authoritarian government – the extreme polarization of politics and the population reflected in media, documents and political rhetoric. By showing the play's strategy of collapsing the binaries that define Chile's polarization, the author posits that El año en que nací not only provides a model that questions what Diana Taylor and others have called the ‘archive’ or stable retainer of memory, but also models an alternative of the social, creating an opening for personal agency on the part of the actors and audience that offers an alternative to the official narrative of polarization.

本研究探讨了阿根廷 Lola Arias 在智利独裁后的社会背景下与El año en que nací （我出生的那一年）（2012 年）的关系。智利的特点是人口受到压制和精神创伤，其政府旨在使社会非政治化，以避免奥古斯托·皮诺切特 (Augusto Pinochet) 十七年专制政府的假定原因——媒体、文件和政治言论中反映的政治和人口的极端两极分化。通过展示该剧打破定义智利两极分化的二进制文件的策略，作者假设El año en que nací不仅提供了一个模型来质疑戴安娜·泰勒和其他人所说的“档案”或记忆的稳定保留者，而且还塑造了社会的另一种选择，为演员和观众的个人代理创造了一个机会，提供了一个替代官方的两极分化叙述。