Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Brown, Duncan"

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    • Indigeneity, Alienness and cuisine: Are Trout South African 

      Brown, Duncan (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
      Man has been defined as a rational animal, a laughing animal, a tool-using animal and so on. We would be touching upon a deep truth about him, however, if we called him a cooking animal.‘Trout Still on the Menu’ announced ...

    • “Modern prophets, produce a new bible”: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho 

      Brown, Duncan (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2008)
      In this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo in newspapers in the 1920s: through what ...

    • Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on 

      Brown, Duncan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...