Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

appeared in some way challenged with an

outlook not infrequently of actual exorcism

(a widespread controversy against urban

modernity). Thus, attitudes aiming to justify

the privileged adoption of abstractly

defining categories of a way of being or of a

personal distinctive culture (Sicilian,

Neapolitan, Molisan, Calabrian...) with

respect to the nation seen for the most part

as something far away and almost

extraneous, have been able to grow easily

and take on meaningful connotations. This,

if on the one hand has contributed to

safeguarding an inalienable anthropological

patrimony, on the other it has led

progressively to a sort of schematizing

regression, which has certainly not

promoted the elimination of the numerous

obstacles in the way of a dialogic growth of

dialect poetry in the contemporary world. So