Finding My Way

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affective literary analysis
Anthropology
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creative non-fiction studies
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History and Criticism
humanities scholarship
imaginative reading practices
institutional history of literary studies
Literature
oral tradition research
Sociology
South African literary criticism

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032633817
  • Weight: 550g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.

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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