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Title: | Afrikaner responses to post-apartheid South Africa: diaspora and the re-negotiation of a cultural identity |
Author: | Visser, Wessel |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | New contree: a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa |
Issue: | 54 |
Pages: | 1-30 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Afrikaners ethnic identity diasporas Afrikaans language |
Abstract: | What is happening to Afrikaner identity, which was constructed and monopolised in a peculiar way under apartheid, in a postapartheid South African society? How do Afrikaners negotiate the new space opened up by the advent of the new political order and how do they create a position for themselves in postapartheid South Africa? Based on an analysis of the discourse and debates as reflected especially in the Afrikaans media and Internet discussion forums, the author investigates two broad notions in which Afrikaner reaction to the changes that have taken place in South Africa is manifested: a disposition towards diaspora and efforts at redefining Afrikaner identity. The focus is on four related issues: an Afrikaner diaspora, the position of Afrikaners in a post-1994 liberal democracy, the Afrikaans language debate, and Afrikaans popular culture and the so-called 'De la Rey phenomenon'. Notes, ref., sum. in Afrikaans. [ASC Leiden abstract] |