- A South African Convivio with Dante
- Edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga
“Dante, Can I Lead You?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere)
- Chris Thurman
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.05
This account of the essays, poems and stories collected in the present volume reflects on the authors’ diverse forms of engagement with Dante via the implications of proximity and distance. In what ways do these students signal affinity with Dante – his historical context, his writerly persona – and in what ways do they subvert or challenge the world view (or the cosmic order) represented in the Commedia? How does their location in South Africa in the twenty-first century, as a particular kind of temporal and spatial dislocation from Italy in the fourteenth century, enable their creative and critical responses to Dante’s work?
- Keywords:
- Dante in South Africa,
- Dante in translation,
- teaching Dante,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - ORCID: 0000-0001-5854-3145
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
“Dante, Can I Lead You?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere)
Authors
Chris Thurman
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.05
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
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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