Chapter PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante

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...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-827642022-06-02T04:17:00Z Chapter PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante Dante’s Purgatorio Postcolonial Dante Dante in translation Dante pedagogy Dante’s reception 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. 2022-06-02T04:16:59Z 2022-06-02T04:16:59Z 2022-06-01T12:18:59Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184588_502 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56317 9788855184588 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82764 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56317/1/26049.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.5 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.5 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184588 69 Florence open access
spellingShingle Dante’s Purgatorio
Postcolonial Dante
Dante in translation
Dante pedagogy
Dante’s reception
Chapter PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
title Chapter PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
title_full Chapter PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante
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title_sort chapter part i students conversations with dante
topic Dante’s Purgatorio
Postcolonial Dante
Dante in translation
Dante pedagogy
Dante’s reception
topic_facet Dante’s Purgatorio
Postcolonial Dante
Dante in translation
Dante pedagogy
Dante’s reception
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