Chapter “Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings
This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and Helena van Urk’s “The Storm”. By employing a comparative analysis, I argue th...
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| description | This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and Helena van Urk’s “The Storm”. By employing a comparative analysis, I argue that, even though decontextualised, the Comedy still represents a fruitful aesthetic source for representing particularly war-torn and violent contexts such as South Africa during apartheid and colonialism. I explore how the authors, through intertextual references and parodic rewriting, both re-configure the poem and challenge some of the Comedy’s moral assumptions and the idea of (divine) justice. I aim to show how Dantean Hell, far from being an otherworldly realm, is in fact transfigured and adapted to effectively represent (and make sense of) a historical context. In other words, through an intertextual analysis, this analysis tries to understand why and how the Comedy resonates with the South African socio-political (and literary) context. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-824522022-06-02T04:11:01Z Chapter “Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings Medugno, Marco intertextuality justice apartheid colonialism Inferno Purgatory re-writing This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and Helena van Urk’s “The Storm”. By employing a comparative analysis, I argue that, even though decontextualised, the Comedy still represents a fruitful aesthetic source for representing particularly war-torn and violent contexts such as South Africa during apartheid and colonialism. I explore how the authors, through intertextual references and parodic rewriting, both re-configure the poem and challenge some of the Comedy’s moral assumptions and the idea of (divine) justice. I aim to show how Dantean Hell, far from being an otherworldly realm, is in fact transfigured and adapted to effectively represent (and make sense of) a historical context. In other words, through an intertextual analysis, this analysis tries to understand why and how the Comedy resonates with the South African socio-political (and literary) context. 2022-06-02T04:11:00Z 2022-06-02T04:11:00Z 2022-06-01T12:18:44Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184588_497 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56312 9788855184588 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82452 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56312/1/26054.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184588 12 Florence open access |
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