- A South African Convivio with Dante
- A cura di Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
“Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto”: Reading Dante in South Africa
- Sonia Fanucchi
- Anita Virga
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.03
Since its conception in 2018, our Dante society has evolved to embrace a unique, South African engagement with the poet and his Commedia. This chapter provides an insight into the society’s origin and the conversations that first inspired our South African Convivio with Dante. Through a detailed description of the thinking behind the contributions of students and colleagues, we highlight the process of reading Dante as a powerful personal experience for us and our students. We argue that Dante provides us with a language through which to make sense of our vulnerable position in post-Apartheid South Africa. This is evident in the ways that student responses to Dante echo the Commedia’s Dante-Virgil dynamic - complex, and sometimes rebellious, yet always intimate and affectionate.
- Keywords:
- Dante in South Africa,
- Dantessa,
- teaching Dante,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0001-7653-2650
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0002-7600-4919
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Informazioni sul capitolo
Titolo del capitolo
“Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto”: Reading Dante in South Africa
Autori
Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.03
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
A South African Convivio with Dante
Sottotitolo del libro
Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia
Curatori
Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
212
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-457-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-458-8
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919