Dal Gast al Fremde nella poesia di Carmine Gino Chiellino

The following essay is aimed at exploring the concepts of Gast and Fremde , that is respectively host and stranger, in the poetic of Italian poet and literary critic Carmine Gino Chiellino within the broader constellation of contemporary German intercultural literature. The lyrical subject of Chiellino’s first poetic phase tends to represent a collective entity representing Gastarbeiter in Germany, yet it opposes a metaleptic tendency to absorb and interiorize external identity ascriptions. The latter process of resistance becomes more evident in the later phases of his poetic, in which the individual emerges as lyric narrator and the concept of Fremd , stranger, is used instead of the dychotomic concept of Gast. Whereas the latter concept is the result of an external attribute, Fremde designs an inner condition of self-negotiation, an intentional potentiality in the identity process of intercultural background.