- A South African Convivio with Dante
- A cura di Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.5
The creative pieces in this volume reveal the complex relationship that young South African writers have with Dante and his Commedia. Notable for their personal response to the poet, they engage in a process of rewriting Dante, who appears variously as a mirror and as a remote presence against which to measure themselves. Their stories are drawn to the rich implications of Dante’s allegory, as it inscribes itself into their personal and political landscapes, offering them an alternative narrative—a new Purgatorial language of change, despair, and hope—in which to frame the South African experience.
- Keywords:
- Dante’s Purgatorio,
- Postcolonial Dante,
- Dante in translation,
- Dante pedagogy,
- Dante’s reception,
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Titolo del capitolo
PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
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Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.5
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2021
Copyright
© 2021 Author(s)
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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