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oapen-20.500.12657-563122022-06-02T03:25:18Z Chapter “Experience that Generates Experience”: The Influence of the Comedy in three South African Writings Medugno, Marco intertextuality justice apartheid colonialism Inferno Purgatory re-writing This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and Helena van Urk’s “The Storm”. By employing a comparative analysis, I argue that, even though decontextualised, the Comedy still represents a fruitful aesthetic source for representing particularly war-torn and violent contexts such as South Africa during apartheid and colonialism. I explore how the authors, through intertextual references and parodic rewriting, both re-configure the poem and challenge some of the Comedy’s moral assumptions and the idea of (divine) justice. I aim to show how Dantean Hell, far from being an otherworldly realm, is in fact transfigured and adapted to effectively represent (and make sense of) a historical context. In other words, through an intertextual analysis, this analysis tries to understand why and how the Comedy resonates with the South African socio-political (and literary) context. 2022-06-01T12:18:44Z 2022-06-01T12:18:44Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184588_497 2704-5919 9788855184588 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56312 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 26054.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-458-8_10 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.08 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855184588 228 12 Florence open access
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This article aims to explore the intertextual relationships between Dante’s Divine Comedy and three pieces of creative writing: Chariklia Martalas’ “A Mad Flight into Inferno Once Again”, Thalén Rogers’ “The Loadstone” and Helena van Urk’s “The Storm”. By employing a comparative analysis, I argue that, even though decontextualised, the Comedy still represents a fruitful aesthetic source for representing particularly war-torn and violent contexts such as South Africa during apartheid and colonialism. I explore how the authors, through intertextual references and parodic rewriting, both re-configure the poem and challenge some of the Comedy’s moral assumptions and the idea of (divine) justice. I aim to show how Dantean Hell, far from being an otherworldly realm, is in fact transfigured and adapted to effectively represent (and make sense of) a historical context. In other words, through an intertextual analysis, this analysis tries to understand why and how the Comedy resonates with the South African socio-political (and literary) context.
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