- A South African Convivio with Dante
- Edited by 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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- Alighieri, Dante. 2005. Inferno, translated by Anthony Esolen. New York: The Modern Library.
- Campbell, Joseph. 1968. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Novato: The New World Library.
- le Goff, Jacques.1984. The Birth of Purgatory, translated Arthur Goldhammer. Aldershot: Scholar Press.
- McMenamin, James. 2016. “The Poet’s Inner Child: Early Childhood and Spiritual Growth in Dante’s ‘Commedia’.” Italica 93 (2): 225–50.
- Turner, Victor, Turner, Edith. 1978. Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
- van Gennep, Arnold, Vizedom, Monika B. 1960. The Rites of Passage, translated by Gabrielle L. Caffee. Illinois: The University of Chicago Press.
- Alighieri, Dante. 1899. La Vita Nuova, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Ellis and Elvey: London.
- Alighieri, Dante. 2004. La Vita Nuova, translated by Barbara Reynolds. Penguin Books: London.
- Alighieri, Dante. 2005. Inferno, translated by Anthony Esolen. Modern Library: New York.
- Alighieri, Dante. 2019. The Divine Comedy, translated by Steve Ellis. Vintage Classics: London.
- Solmi, Sergio. 1968. “Sotto il cielo pacato di novembre.” In Dal Balcone. Milano: Mondadori.
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
Authors
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.5
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Publication Year
2021
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© 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)
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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