Bridge Over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

Bridge Over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

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.
Country USA
Author Kajsa Norman
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9781849046817
Edition 1
ISBN 1849046816
Label Hurst
Manufacturer Hurst
NumberOfPages 208
PublicationDate 2017-01-15
Publisher Hurst
Studio Hurst
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Author	Kajsa Norman
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781849046817
Edition	1
ISBN	1849046816
Label	Hurst
Manufacturer	Hurst
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2017-01-15
Publisher	Hurst
Studio	Hurst
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Bridge Over Blood River: The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

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