03421nam 2200649 a 450 991082571530332120230124190141.01-282-77591-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 centurycolonial, colonialism, postcolonial, anticolonial, south africa, regional, african, 1800s, history, historical, academic, scholarly, justice, xhosa, tribe, tribal, famine, death, tragedy, ghost dance, birsa munda, uprising, equality, prophecy, interdisciplinary, oppression, liberation, intertextuality, politics, political, government, 19th, 20th, century, apartheid, race, racism.SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.968.04/5Wenzel Jennifer1969-1083132MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825715303321Bulletproof3921522UNINA