Chapter The Unattainable South African Paradise

Whether Dante was part of a hegemonic discourse or a counter one, he helped to shape identities, create new ones, re-imagined old ones. However, for these young South African students whose contributions are collected in this book Paradise as a place of the future seems to remain an unattainable mir...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-828372022-06-02T04:18:31Z Chapter The Unattainable South African Paradise Virga, Anita Dante in South Africa Dante's Purgatorio Post-Apatheid South Africa Whether Dante was part of a hegemonic discourse or a counter one, he helped to shape identities, create new ones, re-imagined old ones. However, for these young South African students whose contributions are collected in this book Paradise as a place of the future seems to remain an unattainable mirage. For them South Africa is locked in a present which cannot overcome its past and cannot imagine its future; an eternal Purgatory, which ironically enough for Dante is the only non-eternal place of the afterlife. 2022-06-02T04:18:30Z 2022-06-02T04:18:30Z 2022-06-01T12:19:04Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184588_505 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56320 9788855184588 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82837 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56320/1/26055.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.09 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.09 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184588 9 Florence open access
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