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A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.
In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the /Xam.
Throughout the nineteenth century the /Xam were persecuted and denied the right to live in their own territories. In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction, several /Xam individuals agreed to teach their intricate language to a German philologist and his indomitable English sister-in-law. The result was the Bleek-Lloyd Archive: 60,000 notebook pages in which their dreams, memories and beliefs, alongside the traumas of their more recent history, were meticulously recorded word for word. It is an extraordinary document which gives voice to a way of living in the world which we have all but lost. All things were once people, the /Xam said.
Blackburns journey to the Karoo was cut short by the outbreak of the global pandemic, but she had gathered enough from reading the archive, seeing the /Xam lands and from talking to anyone and everyone she met along the way, to be able to write this haunting and powerful book, while living her own precarious lockdown life. Dreaming the Karoo is a spellbinding new masterpiece by one of our greatest and most original non-fiction writers.
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In this book I have decided to use the term Bushman and Bushmen throughout. I realise it is a name that carries difficult and sometimes negative connotations, but the alternative use of the San or even San Bushmen is also complicated: experts explain the origin of the word San as derogatory. Everyone I met with in South Africa used the word Bushman, and it is how the //Khomani San, the Bushmen of South Africa, refer to themselves.
Guide to /Xam pronunciation: Bennun, p. 391.
The Bushmen feel: Bleek & Lloyd, p. 333.
The wind blows: Ibid., p. 363.
While Ttai-tchuen was a girl: Archive, 492780.
I told my wife: Ibid.
Dia!kwains grandfather: Ibid., 5457.
The jackal eats: Ibid., 4247.
All animals marry: Ibid., 3536.
Bushmen do not: Bennun, p. 189.
The First at Sitting People: Bleek & Lloyd, p. 55.
and so it is: Archive, 6059.
the water tastes bitter: Ibid., 13578.
The springbok resembles: Ibid., 7226.
Mmei !ka killed: quoted in Skotnes (2008), p. 29.
The man turned: Archive, 4460.
The lion walking: Ibid., 4029.
Our mother ordered: Ibid., 402932.
My aunt used to: Ibid., 806.
A woman is travelling: Ibid., 1616.
My mother does not: quoted by Skotnes (2008), p. 213.
The face of: Captain W. C. Harris, Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the years 1836 and 1837, The American Mission Press, 1838.
Equus Quagga: H. A. Bryden, Kloof and Karoo, Sport, Legend and Natural History in Cape Colony, Longmans, Green & Co., 1889.
Quaggas weep if: Bennun, p. 18.
The gemsbok understands: Archive, 930.
The Moon walks: Ibid., 1562.
The Rain carries: Bennun, p. 208.
Grandfather turned himself: Archive, 5069.
He is a lion: Ibid., 2778.
The lion says: Ibid., 1167.
It seemed as if: Ibid., 5866.
When the people see: Bennun, p. 211.
I resemble my father: Archive, 7339.
The baboon is: Ibid., 72968.
We shall see: Ibid., 55534.
A presentiment is: Bleek & Lloyd, pp. 3319.
We feel in our: Archive, 2532.
He feels the rustling: Ibid., 25546.
Oh old woman!: Bank, p. 273.
Darkness resembles fear: Archive, 373.
I shall drink: Bank, p. 36.
!gam keei: Ibid., p. 39.
Koi-ang is the: Archive, 189.
There is my wife: Bleek & Lloyd, pp. 2919.
The doctor asked: The entire story of //Kabbos capture and journey to Cape Town is in Bleek & Lloyd, pp. 2919.
We came to Beaufort: Bennun, pp. 224.
a film called Tracks: Hugh Brody, Tracks across Sand, 2012.
Khou/khougen: Archive, 1130.
a documentary: John Marshall, A Kalahari Family, 2002.
The Bushmen hold: Archive, 1261.
Mother beat the ground: Ibid., 48035.
Where else shall: Charles White, An Account of the Regular Graduations in Man, 1799.
Yet, if we wield: Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, 183033.
There must be a physical: Robert Knox, The Races of Men, London, 1850.
They are without a past: Frederick Farrar, Aptitude of the Races, lecture to the Ethnological Society of London, 1866.
there is no longer room: George McCall Theal, The Yellow and Dark-Skinned People of Africa South of the Zambesi, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1911.
In 1854 Bleek: This account of Bleeks early life is from Bennun, p. 81.
A German, Dr Bleek: Ibid., p. 101.
her private parts: Bank, p. 37.
One of my wifes sisters: Bennun, p. 72.
The moon comes out: Archive, 2923.
because its apparently primitive: quoted in Bank, p. 71.
The water shall rain: Archive, 2047.
Give bread: quoted in Bennun, p. 40.
the valuable assistance gratefully acknowledged the help: Ibid., pp. 278, 272.
thu: white man: Archive, 3734.
a brush called /ku: Ibid., 11212.
As he is knocking: Ibid., 938.
The old woman: Ibid., 2160.
The cat, the wild cat: Ibid., Jantje at the Museum, 30 May 1871.
When a man kills: quoted in Bennun, p. 233.
The people eat ostriches: Archive, 458.
I must eat: Ibid., 11414.
My thoughts spoke: Bennun, p. 7.
The Bushman dies: Archive, 1173.
A man leaves: Ibid., 1217329.
In the past: Ibid., 670910.
My mother was: Ibid., 251015.
The dawn did not: Ibid., 2211.
Our mothers told me: Ibid., 5947, 5776.
The people dying: Ibid., 142630.
The old pot: Ibid., 731619.
The things that are: Ibid., 578890.
//Kabbo was the second: Ibid., 476.
I saw them: Ibid., 194951.
She did say: Ibid., 19536.
He has feet: Ibid., 306.
I must possess: Bleek & Lloyd, pp. 299317.
The mountains lie: Archive, 135773.
His mother is said: Ibid., 2414.
The Boers bound them: Bennun, p. 222.
Hwurri-terri who was: Archive, 587280.
I smear the poison: Ibid., 347680.
/hunn-ta-ho: a piece of root: Ibid., 34253.
The honeybees: Ibid., 13646.
The men all lay dead: Archive, 24836.
The place became: Ibid., 51049.
just as if: Bennun, pp. 25961; Archive, 511016.
Mother did not know: Archive, 513940.
At the time: Ibid., 5199.
Bank, pp. 25661, and Bennun, pp. 26672.
Grandfather !Nwin/kuiten: Archive, 5101.
the cultural intellect: quoted in Bank, p. 257.
When the moon: Bleek & Lloyd, p. 399.
Mother took a stone: Archive, 51602.
Why can it be: quoted in Bank, pp. 2623.
When the sun: Archive, 4684.
Bushmen who lived: Grey Library, Cape Town, 28 February 1878, UCT C15.14.
An owl made: Archive, 4868.
We clap our hands: Ibid., 67778.
During his childhood: This story is from Bank, pp. 293300.
We go behind: Archive, 6726.
The mother springbok: Ibid., 72378.
I sit here: Ibid., 723941.
From this direction: Bleek & Lloyd, p. 287.
He sits up: Ibid., p. 387.
For we seemed: Archive, 4412.
valuable service: Kiernan, p. 236.
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