Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy

Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
ISBN-10
0268033862
ISBN-13
9780268033866
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
ND Devers Series Dante & Med.
Author
Dennis Looney

Description

Introduction. Canonicity, hybridity, freedom ; Sailing with Dante to the new world ; The Dante wax museum on the frontier, 1828 -- Colored Dante. Dante the Protestant. Abolitionists and nationalists, Americans and Italians ; H. Cordelia Ray, William Wells Brown -- Negro Dante. Educating the people: from Cicero to Du Bois ; African American filmmaker at the gates of Hell ; Spencer Williams ; Dante meets Amos 'n' Andy ; Ralph Waldo Ellison's prophetic vernacular muse -- Black Dante. LeRoi Jones, The system of Dante's hell ; A new narrative model ; Amiri Baraka: From Dante's system to the system -- African American Dante. Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills ; Multicolored, Multicultural Terza Rima ; Toni Morrison, The Bluest eye ; Dante Rap -- Poets in exile.

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