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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Allen, Jason

Titel

Aimé Césaire and The Divine Comedy: Self-enlightenment and the dialectic of relation in And the Dogs Were Silent

Ist Teil von

• Journal of postcolonial writing, 2017-07, Vol.53 (4), p.482-494

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Current Content Access

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article offers a close reading of the lyrical drama And the Dogs Were Silent, and Aimé Césaire's unique deployment of a Dantean imaginary. It argues, specifically, that Dante's "symbolic process" in the Commedia provides a metaphorical structure for the hero's initiation in this work and for the poet's articulation of a philosophy of postcolonial relationality. Showing how Dante's katabasis is used to analogize the creative power of Césaire's hellish abyss, it offers Édouard Glissant's theory of Relation as a guiding framework to emphasize fluid connectivity in Césaire's poetic project.