Chapter PART I. Students' Conversations with Dante

• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
• coleção: Studi e saggi
• Assuntos: Dante's Purgatorio; Postcolonial Dante; Dante in translation; Dante pedagogy; Dante's reception
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...