Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary - Softcover
Bram Fischer's life has all the drama and intimacy of a story worth telling. Born into a prominent Afrikaner nationalist family, Fischer became a Rhodes scholar and distinguished lawyer, and in 1964 led a defense of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and others in the Rivonia trial. Fischer was sentenced to life imprisonment for his own political activities against apartheid. Before his sentencing he spent nine months underground, in disguise. For a time, he was South Africa's most wanted man, his cause recognised and celebrated around the world. His story is one of those rare lives that weave together the personal and political and revise our sense of both in a world revolving furiously around issues of identity.
This book was the winner of the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction writing.
This book was the winner of the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction writing.
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About the Author:
STEPHEN CLINGMAN is the author of The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside and editor of Nadine Gordimer’s The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places. Born in South Africa, he is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Review:
"Clingman has given his fellow South Africans a slice of history to be deeply proud of, and one which may stop in their tracks some of those former collaborators engaged in rewriting history to make out that apartheid was not so very evil". -- (London) Guardian
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- PublisherNew Africa Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0864866771
- ISBN 13 9780864866776
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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