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The Killing of the Dogs
This story of organised around and imaginary organised dog killing in a South African township during the period of resistance to apartheid oppression.
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South African prison writing
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000.
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Uses of Literature
The value of literature is minimised in the functioning of society.
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Double Vision
This project will be a work of creative non-fiction, exploring issues of identity, boundaries, and vision that have been of concern for many years to a scholar who has been both literary critic and biographer.
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J.M. Coetzee: A Critical Biography
The Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee is currently South Africa’s most resourceful and influential writer.
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Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. ‘Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine.’ In S. A. Murray & M. Betty (Eds.), The Creat...
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J.M. Coetzee, Connection, Cognition: Perspectives from the South
The project is a comparative study of the South African-born, now Australian writer J.
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South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Notes from the body: An autobiographical review
Moffett, Helen. 2024. Notes from the body: An autobiographical review. South African Journal of Science, 120(11/12). https://doi.org/10.1715...
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(In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa. In T. Roynon & M. C. Conner (Eds.), Global Ralph E...
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Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo
Ndlovu, Thabisani and Increment Andile Dlulani. 2020. Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred K...
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A History of South African Literature - Afrikaans Literature since 1930
The third volume concluding my comprehensive, novel history of South-African/Afrikaans literature explores the period from the 1930s onwards.
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Representing Discontent: South Africa in words and on screen
This project focuses on the affective shaping of identity in South African texts of the 21st century.
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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...
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The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?”
Chapman, Michael. 2019. The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?” Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern ...
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‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’
Michael Chapman (guest editor). 2009. ‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’. Current Writing (Special Issue)
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Coetzee, Gordimer and the Nobel Prize
Michael Chapman. 2009. Coetzee, Gordimer and the Nobel Prize. British and American Studies 15
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The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today
Michael Chapman. 2009. The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today. Journal of Literary Studies 25
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Begging to be Black
Antjie Krog. 2010. Begging to be Black. Cape Town: Random House Struik. 288 pp
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The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content)
Njabulo Ndebele. 2013. The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content). Picador Africa, 336 pp. EAN: 978 1 77010 308 5.
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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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101 Detectives
Vladislavić, Ivan. 2015. 101 Detectives. Cape Town: Umuzi. http://www.randomstruik.co.za/books/101-detectives/5720.
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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 Alexa...
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Birthmark
Clingman, Stephen. 2015. Birthmark. Johannesburg: Jacana. http://www.jacana.co.za/book-categories/biography-a-memoir/birthmark-detail.
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J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing
Attwell, David. 2015. J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing. Johannesburg: Jacana. http://jacana.co.za/book-categories/fiction-poetry-a-writi...
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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...
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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.p...
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Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways
Beilharz, P and S Supski. 2016. Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways. Thesis Eleven 136(...
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Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City. Thesis Eleven 136(1):5–19. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/do...
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Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities. Thesis Eleven 136(1):20–30. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/1...
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Finding and Growing Athlone
Baderoon, Gabeba. 2017. Finding and Growing Athlone. New England Review, 38(4), 37–42. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2017.0098
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Dancing the Death Drill
Khumalo, Fred. 2017. Dancing the Death Drill. Umuzi. http://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/dancing-death-drill/9781415209493
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The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa
Hope, Christopher. 2018. The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa. Penquin Random House South Africa. https://www.pengui...
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The History of Intimacy (1st ed.)
Baderoon, Gabeba. 2018. The History of Intimacy (1st ed.). Cape Town: Kwela Books, NB Publishers
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Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments.
Brown, Duncan. 2019. Wilder Lives. Humans and our Environments. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. http://www.ukznpress.co.za/?class=bb_ukz...
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Reading black middle-classness
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these.
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Coetzee, Kentridge, and the Computer: Automation and the Arts in South Africa
This study explores the reciprocal relationship between technology, politics, and the arts.
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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 understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
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‘Maids’ and ‘Madams’ in Caribbean and South African Women’s Texts: Approximations of Feminist Solidarity?
This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa.
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The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
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Devil With Blue Eyes
Devil With Blue Eyes is a novel of dislocation that seeks to explore and expose the rise of xenophobia in South Africa.
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Global Citizenship and the Practice of Being Human. South African Visions and the legacy of Enlightenment
This project addresses the idea of global citizenship and common humanity in South Africa today.
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Fiction Writing Project
I plan to write a novel based on the life and works of Thomas Pringle, popularly known as the Father of South African poetry.
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The Heartbeat of a Storm
After writing five novels, a collection of short stories and a musical, which largely drew from South Africas troubled past, I will use the period at STIAS to write a semi-autobiographical (or novelized) account of the use of technology or forensic science to make sense of our past and of our future.
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South African Literature after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The role of literature is always to speak the truth to power (Nietzsche), and even if it cannot pretend to ameliorate material problems it appears to have impact on the way readers respond to reality and even perhaps behave in the real world.
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Reinstating the "Literary" in South African Literary Studie
South African literary studies has, in a sense, lost its intellectual project.