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dc.contributor.authorDi Florio, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-01T12:18:47Z
dc.date.available2022-06-01T12:18:47Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855184588_500
dc.identifier.issn2704-5919
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56315
dc.description.abstractChariklia Martalas's “Eating John Vorster" brings to light the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, “the architect of Apartheid,” by Dimitri Tsafendas. As an act of social responsibility, the author presents the intergenerational trauma of Apartheid to a transnational community of readers. This article, drawing on an interview with Martalas, argues that her reading of Dante’s Inferno rewrites a traumatic South African memory as well as transforms the reader into a responsible witness and messenger. Martalas establishes an ideal friendship with Dante and, while powerfully reactivating and rewriting his vivid imagery, unveils a contemporary tragedy. Her creative text addresses the reader’s consciousness and questions the interconnection among language, values, and actions.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.subject.otherApartheid
dc.subject.othermessenger
dc.subject.otherreader
dc.subject.otherresponsibility
dc.subject.othertrauma
dc.titleChapter Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante, Friend and Witness of Our Time
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.11
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855184588
oapen.series.number228
oapen.pages9
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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