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Freedom Readers - The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
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Freedom Readers - The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
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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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