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“rita barnard”

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  • South African Writing in Transition

    Edited by Professor Rita Barnard, Dr Andrew van der Vlies ...
    Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book asks the question: how has contemporary South African literature grappled with ideas of time and history during the political transition away from apartheid?Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, South African Writing in Transition ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela

    Edited by Rita Barnard ...
    Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Apartheid and Beyond

    South African Writers and the Politics of Place

    by Rita Barnard ...
    Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works

    by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell, Louise Bethlehem, Carrol Clarkson, Stephen Clingman, Emily Davis, Gerald Gaylard, Johan Geertsema, Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Erik Grayson, Patrick Hayes, Kay Heath, Keith Leslie Johnson, Patricia Merivale, Shannon Payne, Robert Spencer, Andrew van der Vlies, Pieter Vermeulen, Wendy Woodward ...
    Series Book 130 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose ... Read more

    $14.29 USD