Chilean Women's Poetry Under Neoliberalism, 1980-2020 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399541497)

Chilean Women's Poetry under Neoliberalism, 1980-2020 explores how the works of 6 women poets interact with the imposition and development of neoliberalism in Chile over 4 decades. The book follows a chronology that joins poetic work that criticises the model from its inception during dictatorship times (1980s), through a democratic transition that did not live up to its expectations (1990s), until the naturalisation of neoliberalism as a new normal that seems not possible to overcome (2000s). Finally, the 2010s show how the great inequalities denounced in the works from the previous 3 decades found concrete resistance through the October 2019 social revolt. This juncture brings new poetry hoping for a refoundation of Chile while also imagining the failure of a revolutionary movement. In the end, the latter came to pass.

Author: Bárbara Fernández-Melleda
ISBN-10: 1399541498
ISBN-13: 9781399541497
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d