Freedom readers : the African American reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy / Dennis Looney.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies ; v. 12.Publication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.Description: xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780268033866 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0268033862 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 851.1 L873f
LOC classification:
  • PQ4385.U5 L66 2011
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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