Finding My Way

ISBN-13: 9781032633817 / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str.

Duncan Brown

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.