Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature [Hardcover]

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.

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Browns 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 criticismof registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think.

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This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Browns experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship.

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?