Conférence « Intercultural Dialogue in South Tyrolean Literature of the 20th and 21st centuries »

Le CCÉAE a le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence « Intercultural Dialogue in South Tyrolean Literature of the 20th and 21st centuries » de Massimo Salgaro (Università di Verona).

*Conférence en anglais

Massimo Salgaro est professeur associé au Département de langues et littératures étrangères à l’Université de Vérone depuis 2005. Ses travaux portent sur la littérature allemande et autrichienne. Il mène en outre des recherches interdisciplinaires telles que l’esthétique empirique et les humanités numériques.

Résumé de la conférence :

South Tyrol is a small province in the north of Italy since 1919. Today, around 520,000 people with different mother tongues live in South Tyrol. 69.4 percent of the population belong to the German language group, 26 percent to the Italian language group and 4.5 percent to the Ladin language group. In addition to the three original language groups, 46,000 foreigners live in the province.
Although the province tries to convey an image of happy coexistence and Alpine idyll, there have been and still are strong underlying tensions between the language groups. These tensions are triggered by economic interests and cultural stereotypes. In my paper, I would like to analyse literature’s attempt to act as an intercultural mediator between the language groups, in particular in: Die Walsche/L’italiana (1982) by Joseph Zoderer, Eva dorme/Eva sleeps (2010) by Francesca Melandri; Lingua madre/Mother tongue (2021) by Maddalena Fingerle.