Brown, Duncan2018-05-032018-05-032016Brown, D. (2016). Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 28(2): 108-118.1013-929Xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2016.1202037https://hdl.handle.net/10566/3633I 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 significant implications have been, what remain challenges, and how we may think of, or rethink, orality and performance studies in a present and future that are changing at almost inconceivable pace.enThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2016.1202037OralityPerformanceOral literatureLiterary theoryCriticismLiterary historyArticle