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| Oral literature & performance in southern Africa D Brown (No Title), 1999 | 114 | 1999 |
| National belonging and cultural difference: South Africa and the global imaginary D Brown Journal of Southern African Studies 27 (4), 757-769, 2001 | 77 | 2001 |
| To speak of this land: identity and belonging in South Africa and beyond D Brown University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006 | 73 | 2006 |
| Exchanges: South African writing in transition D Brown, B Van Dyk (No Title), 1991 | 48 | 1991 |
| Creative non-fiction: A conversation D Brown, A Krog Routledge 23 (1), 57-70, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Religion and spirituality in South Africa: New perspectives D Brown University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Orality and Christianity: The hymns of Isaiah Shembe and the Church of the Nazarites D Brown Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 7 (2), 69-96, 1995 | 26 | 1995 |
| Environment and identity : Douglas Livingstone's A Littoral Zone D Brown Critical arts: a journal of south-north cultural and media studies 16 (2 …, 2002 | 15 | 2002 |
| Narrative, memory and mapping: Ronnie Govender's "at the edge” and other Cato manor stories D Brown Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 17 (1), 108-128, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| The society of the text: the oral literature of the/Xam Bushmen D Brown Critical Arts 9 (2), 76-108, 1995 | 14 | 1995 |
| My pen is the tongue of a skilful poet: African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho D Brown English in Africa 31 (1), 23-58, 2004 | 13 | 2004 |
| South African oral performance poetry of the 1980s: Mzwakhe Mbuli and Alfred Qabula D Brown New Writing from Southern Africa, 120-148, 1996 | 13 | 1996 |
| Wilder lives: Humans and our environments D Brown University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Poetry, history, nation: the praises of Shaka kaSenzangakhona D Brown English in Africa 24 (1), 7-36, 1997 | 12 | 1997 |
| Reimagining South African Literature D Brown Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (5), 1109-1123, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| Are trout South African? Stories of fish, people and places D Brown | 11 | 2013 |
| Orality, textuality and history: issues in South African oral poetry and performance. DJB Brown | 10 | 1995 |
| Oral poetry and literary history in South Africa D Brown Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 6 (2), 165-180, 1994 | 10 | 1994 |
| Reflections on the first bushman's path: Stories, songs and testimonies of the /Xam of the northern cape interview with Alan James D Brown Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 14 (2), 155-173, 2002 | 8 | 2002 |
