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Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) (in English)
Dennis Looney (Author)
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University Of Notre Dame Press
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Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) (in English) - Dennis Looney
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Synopsis "Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature) (in English)"
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture. Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from the late 1820s to the present. In many ways, the African American reception of Dante follows a recognizable narrative of reception: the Romantic rehabilitation of the author; the late-nineteenth-century glorification of Dante as a radical writer of reform; the twentieth-century modernist rewriting; and the adaptation of the Divine Comedy into the prose of the contemporary novel. But surely it is unique to African American rewritings of Dante to suggest that the Divine Comedy is itself a kind of slave narrative. Only African American “translations” of Dante use the medieval author to comment on segregation, migration, and integration. While many authors over the centuries have learned to articulate a new kind of poetry from Dante’s example, for African American authors attuned to the complexities of Dante’s hybrid vernacular, his poetic language becomes a model for creative expression that juxtaposes and blends classical notes and the vernacular counterpoint in striking ways. Looney demonstrates this appropriation of Dante as a locus for black agency in the creative work of such authors as William Wells Brown, the poet H. Cordelia Ray, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison, and the filmmaker Spencer Williams.
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