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Most of the attention to Dante’s modern (and earlier) afterlife tends to focus upon his appropriation by writers who are poets or male or European — and in most cases all three. This is not to deny the validity of such attention, much of which (as this volume itself shows) is amply warranted. There are, however, good reasons for giving attention also to the appropriations of Dante by writers of prose fiction, by women writers, and by writers who are drawing upon non-European or partially European cultural traditions. Approaches and responses to Dante on the part of such writers are significantly different from what Heaney calls the ‘envies and identifications’ of European male poets.
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Havely, N. (1998). ‘Prosperous People’ and ‘The Real Hell’ in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills. In: Havely, N. (eds) Dante’s Modern Afterlife. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26975-4_13
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