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oapen-20.500.12657-563152022-06-02T03:25:20Z Chapter Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante, Friend and Witness of Our Time Di Florio, Martina Apartheid messenger reader responsibility trauma Chariklia Martalas's “Eating John Vorster" brings to light the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, “the architect of Apartheid,” by Dimitri Tsafendas. As an act of social responsibility, the author presents the intergenerational trauma of Apartheid to a transnational community of readers. This article, drawing on an interview with Martalas, argues that her reading of Dante’s Inferno rewrites a traumatic South African memory as well as transforms the reader into a responsible witness and messenger. Martalas establishes an ideal friendship with Dante and, while powerfully reactivating and rewriting his vivid imagery, unveils a contemporary tragedy. Her creative text addresses the reader’s consciousness and questions the interconnection among language, values, and actions. 2022-06-01T12:18:47Z 2022-06-01T12:18:47Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184588_500 2704-5919 9788855184588 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56315 eng Studi e saggi application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 26057.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-458-8_13 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.11 10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.11 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855184588 228 9 Florence open access
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Chariklia Martalas's “Eating John Vorster" brings to light the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, “the architect of Apartheid,” by Dimitri Tsafendas. As an act of social responsibility, the author presents the intergenerational trauma of Apartheid to a transnational community of readers. This article, drawing on an interview with Martalas, argues that her reading of Dante’s Inferno rewrites a traumatic South African memory as well as transforms the reader into a responsible witness and messenger. Martalas establishes an ideal friendship with Dante and, while powerfully reactivating and rewriting his vivid imagery, unveils a contemporary tragedy. Her creative text addresses the reader’s consciousness and questions the interconnection among language, values, and actions.
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