| Description |
1 online resource (297) |
| Series |
The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and Medieval Italian literature ; v. 12 |
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William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies ; v. 12.
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| 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 ; Spencer Williams: African American filmmaker at the gates of Hell ; 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Appreciation -- United States
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. fast (OCoLC)fst00029097 |
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Divina commedia gnd |
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Schwarze, ... gnd |
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Dante Alighieri. Divina Commedia. idszbz |
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Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri) fast (OCoLC)fst01356246 |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Art appreciation.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Rezeption
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Geistesleben.
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United States.
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USA
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Schwarze.
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USA.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0268085773 |
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9780268085773 |
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