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    Indigeneity, Alienness and cuisine: Are Trout South African
    (Cambridge University Press, 2016) Brown, Duncan
    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 a recent newspaper report in South Africa on the proposed classification of trout as invasive alien species in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act of 2004 (Yeld, 2014). The report was responding to an apparent softening of its position on trout by the Department of Environmental Affairs. The headline is actually both ironic and suggestive. It is ironic as most fly-fishers who pursue trout nowadays practise catch-and-release, and rarely put the trout they catch �on the menu� (though the trout were certainly introduced initially as both food source and recreational angling species, more on which has been dealt with below).
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    �Modern prophets, produce a new bible�: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
    (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2008) Brown, Duncan
    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 kind of language, from what critical perspective, might one think and write about her? There have been various attempts to write about Mgqwetho, and there are certain obvious possibilities in terms of approach and methodology, which I explore briefly, but I want to suggest a mode of reading which provides a richer, more engaged and more engaging understanding � one which reads with and through, rather than onto or against, her African Christian articulations.