Marginalization and oblivion in Spanish women's poetry: Three poets of the eighties.

Abstract

The poetry of the eighties in Spain was marked by the challenge against the uniformity of a single discourse devised by a group of like-minded critics, anthologists, and publishers bent on reviving at all costs the social poetry of the mid-century, which featured poets such as Jaime Gil de Biedma, Ángel González, Carlos Barral, and José Manuel Caballero Bonald, among others. If it was difficult for the poets to make their way a few years later; when a new social poetry inspired by the aforementioned was imposed, it was even more difficult for the poets of the 80s; since they were ready to renew the panorama and were marginalized. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how only three out of a bouquet of dozens stood out for their personal personality and their original and extraordinary style. The methodology of this study is purely qualitative, based on readings of texts, reviews of the period, and subsequent studies by specialists. In conclusion, Blanca Andréu, María Antonia Ortega, and Concha García proved to be outstanding poets at a time when men were dominant and women and other poets who did not belong to the hegemonic line were pushed aside.