A South African Convivio with Dante
Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia
- Edited by:
- Sonia Fanucchi,
- Anita Virga,
This book offers a collection of South African university students’ written responses to the Commedia and scholars’ commentary on them. The students’ collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante’s text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.
- Keywords:
- Dante Alighieri,
- Dante in South Africa,
- Dante’s reception,
- Postcolonial Dante,
- transformation,
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8
- Series: Studi e saggi
- Scientific Board: Studi di italianistica moderna e contemporanea nel mondo anglofono / Studies in Modern and Contemporary Italianistica in the Anglophone World
- Language: English
- Subjects: Linguistic
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0001-7653-2650
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0002-7600-4919
Anita Virga is Senior Lecturer in the Italian Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She completed her PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2015. She has published various book chapters and articles on Italian cinema and literature in various academic journals, and a monograph on Verga and Capuana in 2017.
Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
“Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto”: Reading Dante in South Africa- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.13-24
PART II. Scholars’ Conversations with South African Students
Chris Thurman
“Dante, Can I Lead You?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere)- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.97-103
Giovanna Trento
Dante’s Journey Through Our Lives: Reading La Commedia in Post-Apartheid South Africa- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.105-115
Victor Houliston
Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.117-129
Marco Medugno
“Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.131-142
pp.153-167
Martina Di Florio
Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante, Friend and Witness of Our Time- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.169-177
Franco Masciandaro
Notes on the writings by the University of the Witwatersrand students of Dante- CC BY 4.0 |
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pp.179-196
- Publication Year: 2021
- Pages: 212
- eISBN: 978-88-5518-458-8
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2021 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2021
- Pages: 212
- ISBN: 978-88-5518-457-1
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2021 Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title
A South African Convivio with Dante
Book Subtitle
Born Frees’ Interpretations of the Commedia
Editors
Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
212
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919
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