marcin
(Marcin)
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that is, of almost 5 million people involved
in emigration; the technological revolution;
the political-cultural emancipation of the old
subaltern classes), that the relationship
between language and dialect, and therefore
the manner in which dialect literature is
produced, has been deeply affected. It has
been indeed the process of Italianization to
better define the functional reach of dialect,
so that even dialect poetry, and dialect
poetry from Apulia in particular, has vastly
extended its expressive range, aiming
increasingly at the recovery of its own
historical memory and the awareness of its
own cultural identity.
One can speak at this point of
“progressive dialect,” according to the
terminology preferred by Ernesto De
Martino, of a dialect matured historically
and ideologically, closer to the demands of