A South African Convivio with Dante : : born frees' interpretations of the Commedia / / edited by Sonia Fanucchi, Anita Virga.

• Superior document: Studi e saggi
• TeilnehmendeR: Virga, Anita,; Fanucchi, Sonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studi e saggi (Florence, Italy)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages).

This book offers a collection of South African university students' written responses to the Commedia and scholars' commentary on them. The students' collection includes writings of all genres and subjects: prose, poetry, personal reflection, dialogue, non-fiction based on the first two cantiche of the Commedia. Some are autobiographical and others are fictional stories, but they all have in common a very personal (and South African) approach to Dante's text. The scholarly essays of the second part are concerned with the unusual way in which Dante is appreciated by our youth: not as a remote figure only encountered in the hallways of the literature department, but as an intimate presence, a guide, a friend whose language is familiar and invites a response.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- 9 -- Foreword -- 11 -- Reading Dante in South Africa -- 13 -- Part I -- 25 -- Earthy Paradise and Liminal Thresholds in Dantes Purgatorio -- 27 -- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Party -- 31 -- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Canto XIII Now Smells Like Roses -- 37 -- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again The Dream or The Ghost of Ulysses -- 41 -- My Dantesque Ulyssean Return to the Commedia -- 83 -- A Tree In Hell -- 89 -- Part II -- 95 -- Dante Can I Lead You? South African students write back across seven centuries and a hemisphere -- 97 -- Reading La Commedia in PostApartheid South Africa -- 105 -- Dantes Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees -- 117 -- The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings -- 131 -- The Unattainable South African Paradise -- 143 -- -- A Mad Flight Into Inferno Once Again Eating John Vorster -- 45 -- The Storm -- 51 -- The Lodestone -- 63 -- A praise poem inspired by Francesca da Rimini -- 69 -- Beatrice -- 73 -- Yet I had not discovered you -- 79 -- Dantes Ulysses Reinvented -- 153 -- Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante Friend and Witness of Our Time -- 169 -- Notes on the writings by the University of the Witwatersrand students of Dante -- 179 -- Kai Lötters art work -- 197 -- Scholars Biographies -- 201.