Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature

Author:   Duncan Brown
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781032633824


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   14 April 2025
Format:   Paperback
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This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship. It is a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Finding My Way also attempts to find more creative, engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities universally. It seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative, the literary, and the affective, not only as things to value in the literary texts we read but also as ways of understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism—of registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

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Author:   Duncan Brown
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781032633824


ISBN 10:   1032633824
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   14 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Finding My Way Chapter One: Reimagining South African Literature Chapter Two: Reimagining the ‘Literary’ Chapter Three: Reading ‘With’ Chapter Four: Writing Belief, Reading Belief Chapter Five: Creative Non-Fiction: A Conversation with Antjie Krog Chapter Six: Oral Literature in South Africa: Twenty Years On Chapter Seven: ‘That Man Patton’: The Personal History of a Book Conclusion: Recursive Futures? Or: What Rough Beast? Bibliography Index

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Duncan Brown is professor of English at the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape. He has widely published in South African literary and cultural studies.

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