Text

Chapter Dimitri Tsafendas Meets Dante, Friend and Witness of Our Time

---

Chariklia Martalas's “Eating John Vorster" brings to light the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, “the architect of Apartheid,” by Dimitri Tsafendas. As an act of social responsibility, the author presents the intergenerational trauma of Apartheid to a transnational community of readers. This article, drawing on an interview with Martalas, argues that her reading of Dante’s Inferno rewrites a traumatic South African memory as well as transforms the reader into a responsible witness and messenger. Martalas establishes an ideal friendship with Dante and, while powerfully reactivating and rewriting his vivid imagery, unveils a contemporary tragedy. Her creative text addresses the reader’s consciousness and questions the interconnection among language, values, and actions.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Studi e saggi,

Call Number

-

Publisher

Florence : Firenze University Press., 2021

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9788855184588

Classification

NONE

Content Type

-

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

responsibility

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Di Florio, Martina

Other Information

Cataloger

-

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82668

Validator

suwardi

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

http://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-458-8.11

Journal Volume

-

Journal Issue

-

Subtitle

-

Parallel Title

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment