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10%OFFDennis Looney - Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.) - 9780268033866 - V9780268033866
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Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.)

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Description for Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.) Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.

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; ... Read more

Looney fruitfully suggests that we read Dante’s Divine Comedy with its African American rewritings in mind, to assess their effect on our interpretation of the Comedy and, in turn, on our understanding of African American culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268033866
SKU
V9780268033866
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About Dennis Looney
Dennis Looney is professor of Italian and classics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.)
“[Dennis Looney’s] subject of Dante’s African American reception has been somewhat neglected up to now, but offers some striking evidence of his relevance to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looney’s major focus is on the novels Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The System of Dante’s Hell by LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), both at various levels autobiographical; ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.)


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