The Erased Generation: Chilean Female Poets between 1970 and 1982

Abstract

The following article reflects on the Chilean literary scene shaped from exile between 1973 and 1982, and the presence that female writers had within. During this period, figures such as Gonzalo Millán, Raúl Zurita, Óscar Hahn, Juan Luis Martínez, among others, consolidated their literary careers, while women seemed to disappear. However, by reading exhaustively the material produced at the time, it is possible to find a substantial number of women in the background. Therefore, there is a void concerning the poetry of the women who lived in exile, which makes it difficult to establish the links and continuities between the literature before the Coup and the explosion that, from 1983, arose from the hand of the poets and theorists. The objective of this work is to contribute to filling this gap and offer clues to also reconstruct this discursive fabric and give these women a place in the historical narrative.