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dc.contributor.authorHouliston, Victor
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-01T12:19:00Z
dc.date.available2022-06-01T12:19:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855184588_503
dc.identifier.issn2704-5919
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56318
dc.description.abstractBeginning with a tribute to the late Chris 'Zithulele' Mann, a poet and activist who was deeply immersed in Dante, this chapter comments on some of the patterns that emerge from the creative contributions of the Dantessa students. Two authors affirm and explore ideas of black womanhood by appealing to Beatrice and Francesca, potentially combining the two figures. Several authors are acutely aware of the purgatorial condition of post-apartheid South Africa, suggesting a long and arduous march to freedom. The image of flight recurs: thrice, madly, into the inferno and once, temporarily, in limbo. These lively responses to La Commedia prompt the question: what kind of literary studies is proper to purgatory, and elicit a tentative reply, urging a re-invention of the discipline of letters.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.subject.otherblack feminism
dc.subject.otherpost-apartheid literary studies
dc.subject.otherChris Mann
dc.subject.otherlong march to freedom
dc.titleChapter Releasing the Prisoners of Hope: Dante’s Purgatorio Breaks the Chains of the Born Frees
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.07
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855184588
oapen.series.number228
oapen.pages13
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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