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Nowoczesność i uniwersalność grekańskiej poezji Salvina Nucery
Modernity and Universality of Salvino Nucera’s Greko Poetry

Author(s): Ewa Róża Janion
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Salvino Nucera; Calabria; Greko; Grecanic culture; minority language; landscape in poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses Salvino Nucera’s (b. 1952) collection of poetry written in Greko (Calabrian Greek, Grecanic) – a language of a small community in Southern Calabria. The article focuses on the poetic strategies of constructing a modern subject in a language that is intrinsically connected to traditional pastoral culture and provides extremely limited vocabulary. It is argued that Nucera refers to the Calabrian landscape, often to specific places, typical elements of nature and everyday practices, which in his poetry become universal metaphors and create an image of a modern intellectual’s complex identity.

  • Issue Year: 476/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 85-98
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish