Uno sguardo dalla periferia: appunti per una storia novecentesca della poesia in dialetto nel Triveneto

Abstract

The so-called Triveneto is--for economical, anthropological, sociolinguistic, and literary reasons--a particular case within the Italian survey. In the twentieth century alone this macroregion has seen a unique and uneven development that has changed sometimes destroyed its previous anthropological and linguistic (i.e. dialect) continuity. This paper explores the consequences and relationships between this particular "sviluppo disuguale" and the literary production of several poets from this area during the past century. It outlines the dialectics among different sociolinguistic oppositions in order to sketch a model helpful in understanding the special tension between national language and dialect(s) in Italian contemporary poetry.