Transformations in the Chilean poetry between 1973 and 1988

Abstract

This paper gives a global vision of the Chilean poetry during the dictatorial period 1973-1978, and shows the relationship between the historical/social processes in the country and the transformations that occurred in literary discourse. Some relationships between the poetic discourse which goes beyond frontiers and the literary/cultural and the historical/social representations are established in each of the three stages the dictatorial period has been divided. These processes have forward and backward repercussions, but at the same time they are impacted by the literary field in its restriction and extension. In the conclusion, some tentative and general reflections are given about the meaning of some poetic representations concerning the dictatorial government and the process of modernism.