Grazia Deledda fuori dal canone e dalla storiografia letteraria italiana. Alcune riflessioni sulla sua modernità e sulle ragioni di un’esclusione
- Institution: Università di Sassari, Italia
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-5895
- Year of publication: 2024
- Source: Show
- Pages: 19-43
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/IW.2024.15.02
- PDF: iw/15_1/iw15101.pdf
Grazia Deledda Outside the Canon and Italian Literary Historiography: Some Reflections on Deledda’s Modernity and the Reasons for Her Exclusion
In this contribution, I investigate the reasons why many critics have found it difficult to understand the work of Grazia Deledda, a modern writer between two languages and two cultures: Sardinian and Italian. My purpose is to reconsider Deledda, using new critical tools forged by the 20th-century linguistic, aesthetic, and anthropological revolution. Today, it no longer makes sense to speak of Italian literature or Sardinian literature, but of the literary communication of Italians or Sardinians, that is, of polycentric literary systems whose identity has been historically and geographically established through the contribution of multiple languages and multiple cultures.