Bridge Over Blood River The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners 1st Edition by Kajsa Norman 1849046816 9781849046817
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ISBN 10: 1849046816
ISBN 13: 9781849046817
Author: Kajsa Norman
Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman’s book traces the war for control of South Africa, its people, and its history, over a series of December 16ths, from the Battle of Blood River in 1838 to its commemoration in 2011. Weaving between the past and the present, the book highlights how years of fear, nationalism, and social engineering have left the modern Afrikaner struggling for identity and relevance. Norman spends time with residents of the breakaway republic of Orania, where a thousand Afrikaners are working to construct a white-African utopia. Citing their desire to preserve their language and traditions, they have sequestered themselves in an isolated part of the arid Karoo region. Here, they can still dictate the rules and create a homeland with its own flag, currency and ideology. For a Europe that faces growing nationalism, their story is more relevant than ever. How do people react when they believe their cultural identity is under threat? Bridge Over Blood River’s haunting and subversive evocation of South Africa’s racial politics provides some unsettling answers.
Table of contents:
1. Rise of the Suburban Fortress
2. JC
3. The Hugo Brothers
4. The New Homeland, Orania
5. The New Trek
6. Good Whites, Poor Whites
7. Castaways of the Rainbow Nation
8. Vagina Dentata
9. Shower Man
10. Blood Brothers
11. Jack of All Trades
12. An Inconvenient Youth
13. Shoot the Boer
14. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
16 December 1949: Threat Level: Red
15. The Reverend
16. Turning a Blind Eye
17. Dina at the Monument
18. The Beginning of the End
16 December 1988: Tainted Story, Fading Glory
19. The Reverend Loses His Flock
16 December 1998: Museum-jacking
20. The Brothers of Sunshine Corner
21. Affirmative Action
22. The Broederbond: Betrayed and Reborn
23. Terrence Pelser Will Never Fly
24. Chess with the Colonel
25. The Battle for History
26. The Real Africa
27. Africa’s White Tribe
28. Orania Revisited
29. A Question of Survival
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