Duncan Brown is part of the 2012 And Earlier, 2013 1st Semester, 2016 1st Semester, and 2018 2nd Semester cohorts at STIAS.
Projects
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Reinstating the "Literary" in South African Literary Studie
South African literary studies has, in a sense, lost its intellectual project. The post-apartheid literary scene is flourishing, but the scholarship is fal... -
Wildness
In this project, I engage with the concept of ‘wildness’, initially in the very problematic ways in which it is often used, but then more substantially in ... -
Rethinking South African Literature(s)
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and un...
Related to Duncan Brown
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The Humanities in Our Times
THE HUMANITIES IN OUR TIMES A South African – American Conversation Following the publication of two reports in 2011, and the establishment in 2013 of a...
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Rewilding language – reclaiming the words - Fellows' seminar by Duncan Brown
“If we don’t have the words we can’t speak about certain things,” said Duncan Brown, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape and ...
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Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places)
Duncan Brown. 2013. Are Trout South African (Stories of Fish, People and Places). Picador Africa, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-77010-302-3.
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Reimagining South African Literature
Duncan Brown. 2014. Reimagining South African Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40 (5), 1109-1123
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Haunted by Waters
Brown, Duncan. 2015. Haunted by Waters. In Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa, edited by Imraan Coovadia, Cóilín Parsons and Alexandra Dodd, 110–...
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Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies. English in Africa 43(3):141. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/eia/article/...
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Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 28(2):108–18. http://www.tandfonl...
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Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony. Critical African Studies 8(2):179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/216...
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Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African?
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Indigeneity, Alienness and Cuisine: Are Trout South African? Pp. 21–38 in Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling, ...
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“That Man Patton”: The Personal History of a Book
Brown, Duncan. 2019. “That Man Patton”: The Personal History of a Book. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 31(2), 107–115. https://doi...
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Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature
Brown, Duncan. 2020. Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Fi...
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa
Nustad, Knut G., Duncan Brown and Heather A. Swanson. 2023. Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Af...
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Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa
Nustad, K. G., Brown, D., & Swanson, H. A. 2025. Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa. Environment and Planning E: N...