Abstract
In every moment of literary history, the change from one generation to other use to be a natural process, a part of historical and existential evolution. In the same way, the cultural, historical or literary memory evolves in different stages with a sense of uninterrupted continuity. However, in some moments of the history of a cultural community, the normalcy, the continuity of historical process of development breaks. As a result of this, disruptions and ruptures arise, sometimes in a very traumatic way, in the historical memory of that community. The history of Spain and the history of Spanish literature in the 20th century are both marked by civil war and Franco’s dictatorship. During the second half of the century, Spain goes through one of these breaks that will have important implications in the continuity of the historical and cultural memory. The normalization process of the cultural memory began to take shape in Spain in the seventies and it involved different social agents.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the important role that Spanish poetry has played at the end of the century in this normalization, in the retrieval and dissemination of a cultural and poetic tradition that had been rejected. At the end of the 1970s, in the context of important political, social and cultural changes the rejected tradition is required to complete not only an individual but also a collective identity.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Journal Section | Makaleler |
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| Publication Date | July 23, 2015 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016 Issue: 8 |