Rita Barnard

 Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of Pennsylvania.

VSA-verkiesing 2020: Doodsake

Rita Barnard Seminare en essays 2020-11-10

"Met Biden se oorwinning ... kan meer mense weer asemhaal, gedagtes ’n bietjie laat swewe, minder bekommerd voel oor watter vulgêre spoggery, onnoselheid, krasheid, gemeenheid, of aanslag op demokratiese grondreëls ons daagliks gaan tref."

Losing the plot: crime, reality, and fiction in postapartheid writing by Leon de Kock: book review

Rita Barnard Books and writers 2017-08-14

"... De Kock, it seems to me, gets much right in Losing the plot. His preoccupations seem all the more relevant as we try to untangle the dense web of corruption in South Africa, decipher the shifty nonsense emerging from the White House, hope to differentiate news from fake news, and find ways of living in a murky world in which states have become indistinguishable from criminal enterprises and politicians from racketeers."

Interview: Rita Barnard on The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela

Rita Barnard, Jonathan Amid 2014-06-19 "How could we avoid being overtaken by history?"
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