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UNINA9910459767603321 |
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Autore |
Wenzel Jennifer <1969-> |
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Bulletproof [[electronic resource] ] : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel |
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Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-77591-X |
9786612775918 |
0-226-89349-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
Electronic books. |
South Africa History Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857 |
South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909 |
South Africa Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Writing resurrection and reversal: the cattle killing and other nineteenth-century millennial dreams -- Spectral and textual ancestors: new African intermediation and the politics of intertextuality -- The promise of failure: memory, prophecy, and temporal disjunctures of the South African twentieth century -- Weapons of struggle and weapons of memory: thinking time beyond apartheid -- Ancestors without borders: the cattle killing as global reimaginary. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 1856 and 1857, in response to a prophet's command, the Xhosa people of southern Africa killed their cattle and ceased planting crops; the resulting famine cost tens of thousands of lives. Much like other millenarian, anticolonial movements-such as the Ghost Dance in North America and the Birsa Munda uprising in India-these actions were meant to transform the world and liberate the Xhosa from oppression. Despite the movement's momentous failure to achieve that goal, the event has continued to exert a powerful pull on the South African imagination ever since. It is these afterliv |
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