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Author:   Heather Renee Sottong
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781531510435

ISBN 10:   1531510434
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction | 1 1. Bartolomé Mitre on Immigration and Argentine Identity | 17 2. Bartolomé Mitre’s Translation of the Divine Comedy: An Anti–Martín Fierro | 40 3. Leopoldo Lugones on Immigration and Argentine Identity | 58 4. Hypermedievalizing and Demedievalizing Dante: Leopoldo Lugones’s and Jorge Luis Borges’s Rewritings of Inferno V | 76 5. Rewriting Dante to Parody Lugones: Borges’s “The Aleph” | 94 6. Leopoldo Marechal on Immigration and Argentine Identity | 117 7. Dante’s Vita nuova and Book 6 of Adán Buenosayres: Solveig as Beatrice, Solveig as Argentina | 147 8. The Journey to Cacodelphia: A Parody of Inferno and Modern-Day Argentina | 164 Conclusion: Argentina’s Failure to Produce a Divine Comedy | 200 Notes | 205 Bibliography | 243 Index | 255

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Through a series of studies on singular Argentine authors, Sottong lucidly demonstrates how Dante and his Divine Comedy, seen by Italian thinkers and political figures as the source for an imagined Italian national identity in the nineteenth century, in turn inspired Argentine authors in a similar fashion. This is an important, pioneering book that will open the field of Dante Studies to new transnational studies of the poem's circulation, translation, and global influence.---Kristina M. Olson, Associate Professor of Italian, George Mason University, author of Courtesy Lost: Dante, Boccaccio and the Literature of History

Author Information

Heather Sottong is an Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at FLAME University in Pune, India. Her research focuses on the Italian diaspora in Argentina and the literary appropriation of Dante in the Americas.

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