'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism

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dc.contributor.authorDu Toit, André
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-30T08:31:56Z
dc.date.available2018-05-30T08:31:56Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2016-01-13T08:37:15Z
dc.description.abstractThis article compares two quite different portrayals of, and reflections on, the nature and fate of Afrikaner nationalism in its historical entanglement with the apartheid order. On the one hand, it considers the many and sustained publications of the historian Hermann Giliomee, culminating in The Afrikaners (2003). On the other hand, it provides an analysis and interpretation of a work of art,'Afrikaander circa 1600' (2007), an installation by the visual artist and sculptor Andries Botha. While Giliomee's'biography' of the Afrikaners remains trapped in their struggle for'survival', it fails to historicise fully the demise of Afrikaner nationalism as a political project. As against this, Botha's installation, on the analogy of the "Bushman Diorama" in the South African Museum, presents a kind of Afrikaner Diorama in a post-apartheid perspective reducing Afrikaner nationalism and power to historical relics.
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470802622586
dc.identifier.apacitationDu Toit, A. (2008). 'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism. <i>South African Historical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28192en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDu Toit, André "'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism." <i>South African Historical Journal</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28192en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationToit, A. D. (2008). 'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism. South African Historical Journal, 60(4), 562-578.
dc.identifier.ris TY - AU - Du Toit, André AB - This article compares two quite different portrayals of, and reflections on, the nature and fate of Afrikaner nationalism in its historical entanglement with the apartheid order. On the one hand, it considers the many and sustained publications of the historian Hermann Giliomee, culminating in The Afrikaners (2003). On the other hand, it provides an analysis and interpretation of a work of art,'Afrikaander circa 1600' (2007), an installation by the visual artist and sculptor Andries Botha. While Giliomee's'biography' of the Afrikaners remains trapped in their struggle for'survival', it fails to historicise fully the demise of Afrikaner nationalism as a political project. As against this, Botha's installation, on the analogy of the "Bushman Diorama" in the South African Museum, presents a kind of Afrikaner Diorama in a post-apartheid perspective reducing Afrikaner nationalism and power to historical relics. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Historical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - 'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism TI - 'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28192 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/28192
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDu Toit A. 'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism. South African Historical Journal. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28192.en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceSouth African Historical Journal
dc.source.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rshj20
dc.subject.otherAfrikaner nationalism
dc.subject.otherAfrikaner identity
dc.subject.otherAfrikaner history
dc.subject.otherPolitics of history
dc.subject.otherPost-apartheid perspectives
dc.title'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism
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