6/24/2023 0 Comments Reading the divine comedy![]() ![]() But surely it is unique to African American rewritings of Dante to suggest that the Divine Comedy is itself a kind of slave narrative. 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. ![]() Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from the late 1820s to the present. 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. ![]()
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