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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Looney, Dennis.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies ; v. 12.

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante and Medieval Italian literature ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation--United States.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

United States.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268085773

0268085773

Publisher Number:

99985134907

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.