Hispanic intertextuality in contemporary Sardinian poetry

The Sardinian people have undergone a process of acculturation, initially
Iberian and later Italian, which was particularly marked in the period of
fascist nationalism and in that of post-fascist national centralism. Yet the
Sardinian language is different from the Italian language and the Sardinian
worldview is therefore equally different. It is upon this diversity that
Sardinia’s special statute autonomy should have been founded, whereas
nowadays most so-called “educated” people still consider Sardinian to be a
dialect of Italian and, moreover, one with negative connotations. It was
therefore inevitable, once it was accepted that the school system should
integrate totally with the language and culture of the Italian nation, that
students would continue, as they still do today, to be deprived of their own
identity. One might conclude, not without a certain bitterness, that those
responsible for schools in Sardinia have never even considered the problem
of aratio studiorumthat takes into account the pluriculturalism and
plurilingualism of the past as well as the bilingualism of the present.