Democracy, identity and change (Around Spanish poetry during the Transition)

The present article intends to analyze the incidence of the process of political transition to democracy in the Spanish literature and poetry during the 70s and 80s, synthesized in five arguments. First, the specific transition of the literature, that had started a few years earlier; secondly, the links of the poetry to political engagement; in third place, the connection with the novel, especially with the detective novel, in the context of cities on the way to transformation; in fourth place, the revaluation of the poetry written by women; finally, the connection with the democratic normalization and the generational aesthetic changes.