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  1. Literary heresy : the Dantesque metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka
    Author: Looney, Dennis
    Published: 2019

  2. Literary heresy : the Dantesque metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka
    Author: Looney, Dennis
    Published: 2019

    During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new militant identity, turning himself into a new man with a new name, Amiri Baraka, whose experimental literary project culminated in "The System of Dante's... more

     

    During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new militant identity, turning himself into a new man with a new name, Amiri Baraka, whose experimental literary project culminated in "The System of Dante's Hell" in 1965. Dante’s poem (specifically, John Sinclair's translation) provides a grid for the narrative of Baraka's autobiographical novel; at the same time, the Italian poet's description of hell functions for Baraka as a gloss on many of his own experiences. Whereas for Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, Dante marks a way into the world of European culture, Baraka uses Dante first to measure the growing distance between himself and European literature and then, paradoxically, to separate himself totally from it. Baraka's response to the poet at once confirms and belies Edward Said's claim that Dante's "Divine Comedy" is essentially an imperial text that is foundational to the imperial discipline of comparative literature. That Baraka can found his struggle against imperialist culture, as he sees it, on none other than this specific poem suggests the extent to which it is a richer and more complex text than even Said imagined. To see exactly how Baraka does this, Dennis Looney proposes to read several extended passages from "The System of Dante's Hell" to take stock of its allusiveness to the Italian model. For all the critical attention to Baraka, surprisingly no one has undertaken the necessary work of sorting out his allusions to Dante in any systematic way.

     
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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 800; 810
    Subjects: Dante Alighieri; Inferno; Rezeption; Baraka; Imamu Amiri; USA; Schwarze; Literatur
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  3. Literary heresy
    the Dantesque metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka
    Author: Looney, Dennis
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Turia + Kant, Wien ; Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main

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    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    https://hds.hebis.de/ubffm/Record/HEB456536035
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Metamorphosing Dante; Wien : Turia + Kant, 2010; 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten); Seite 305-322
    DDC Categories: 810
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)
  4. Literary heresy : the Dantesque metamorphosis of LeRoi Jones into Amiri Baraka
    Author: Looney, Dennis
    Published: 29.10.2019

    During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new militant identity, turning himself into a new man with a new name, Amiri Baraka, whose experimental literary project culminated in "The System of Dante's... more

     

    During the Black Revolution, LeRoi Jones used a radical adaptation of Dante to express a new militant identity, turning himself into a new man with a new name, Amiri Baraka, whose experimental literary project culminated in "The System of Dante's Hell" in 1965. Dante’s poem (specifically, John Sinclair's translation) provides a grid for the narrative of Baraka's autobiographical novel; at the same time, the Italian poet's description of hell functions for Baraka as a gloss on many of his own experiences. Whereas for Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, Dante marks a way into the world of European culture, Baraka uses Dante first to measure the growing distance between himself and European literature and then, paradoxically, to separate himself totally from it. Baraka's response to the poet at once confirms and belies Edward Said's claim that Dante's "Divine Comedy" is essentially an imperial text that is foundational to the imperial discipline of comparative literature. That Baraka can found his struggle against imperialist culture, as he sees it, on none other than this specific poem suggests the extent to which it is a richer and more complex text than even Said imagined. To see exactly how Baraka does this, Dennis Looney proposes to read several extended passages from "The System of Dante's Hell" to take stock of its allusiveness to the Italian model. For all the critical attention to Baraka, surprisingly no one has undertaken the necessary work of sorting out his allusions to Dante in any systematic way.

     
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    Source: CompaRe
    Language: English
    Media type: Part of a book; Part of a book
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-85132-617-8
    DDC Categories: 800; 810
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Dante Alighieri; Inferno; Rezeption; Baraka, Imamu Amiri; USA; Schwarze; Literatur
    Rights:

    creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.de

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    info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess