Research Note

Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia

Volume: 18 Number: 2 December 31, 2024
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Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia

Abstract

The primary focus of this article is to investigate the (in)visible gendered constructs within Dante’s Commedia. The article argues that due to the special emphasis on vice and virtue, Commedia lends itself to the archival purposes of cultural memory. The article explores how the cultural memory within the poem takes on a phallocentric perspective in its mechanics of socio-political affirmations doubled by Dante’s poetic chiasm. Since the meticulous visibility of such a concept by itself reallocates our focus towards the imperatives of silences and gaps, the poem introduces a nuanced gendered interpretation far beyond the visible space. Therefore, this article employs a critical and deconstructive method to scrutinise the phallocentric dynamism of the poem’s memory-dependent derivatives and its invisible underside by taking a gendered approach. Within this framework, this article aims to contribute to the literature on Dante’s Commedia with an introduction of a new feminist lens that might enrich various readings of Dante’s “poema sacro.”

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

World Languages, Literature and Culture (Other), Literary Studies (Other)

Journal Section

Research Note

Publication Date

December 31, 2024

Submission Date

April 22, 2024

Acceptance Date

November 30, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 18 Number: 2

APA
Ayrım, O. (2024). Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 18(2), 444-455. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1472227
AMA
1.Ayrım O. Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia. CUJHSS. 2024;18(2):444-455. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1472227
Chicago
Ayrım, Oğuzhan. 2024. “Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 18 (2): 444-55. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1472227.
EndNote
Ayrım O (December 1, 2024) Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 18 2 444–455.
IEEE
[1]O. Ayrım, “Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia”, CUJHSS, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 444–455, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.47777/cankujhss.1472227.
ISNAD
Ayrım, Oğuzhan. “Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 18/2 (December 1, 2024): 444-455. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1472227.
JAMA
1.Ayrım O. Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia. CUJHSS. 2024;18:444–455.
MLA
Ayrım, Oğuzhan. “Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia”. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 18, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 444-55, doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1472227.
Vancouver
1.Oğuzhan Ayrım. Beyond the Forgotten: Cultural Memory and the Poetics of Gender in Dante’s Commedia. CUJHSS. 2024 Dec. 1;18(2):444-55. doi:10.47777/cankujhss.1472227

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