03055nam 2200649 a 450 991045976760332120200520144314.01-282-77591-X97866127759180-226-89349-910.7208/9780226893495(CKB)2670000000044192(EBL)713791(OCoLC)664571308(SSID)ssj0000413336(PQKBManifestationID)12129595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413336(PQKBWorkID)10384319(PQKB)10369095(MiAaPQ)EBC713791(DE-B1597)523850(OCoLC)1058520336(DE-B1597)9780226893495(Au-PeEL)EBL713791(CaPaEBR)ebr10412763(CaONFJC)MIL277591(EXLCZ)99267000000004419220090128d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBulletproof[electronic resource] afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond /Jennifer WenzelChicago ;London University of Chicago Press20091 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-89348-0 0-226-89347-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 afterlivSOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralbisacshSouth AfricaHistoryXhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857South AfricaPolitics and government1836-1909South AfricaPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books.SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.968.04/5Wenzel Jennifer1969-991583MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459767603321Bulletproof2269376UNINA