Chapter Dante's Journey Through Our Lives: Reading La Commedia in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By appropriating the notions of journey and exile-that are at the core of Dante's life and work-the texts we are examining in this publication are able to refer to/relate to the conditions of exile, exclusion, and segregation that were proper to Apartheid and still affect post-Apartheid South A...

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Main Author: Trento, Giovanna (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
Series:Studi e saggi
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