Finding My Way

This book offers a series of reflections on South African literature from the perspective of 2020, drawing on Duncan Brown’s three decades of experience in the field. It serves as both a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and beyond. The chapters weave together questions about recovering 'the literary,' literary studies 'after theory,' religion and spirituality, and South African literary history postapartheid. Beyond being a book about the evolving landscape of South African literature, it also attempts to find more creative and engaging ways of writing about literature and the humanities, emphasizing the imaginative and affective aspects of reading and criticism.