LEADER 03055nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910459767603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-77591-X 010 $a9786612775918 010 $a0-226-89349-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226893495 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044192 035 $a(EBL)713791 035 $a(OCoLC)664571308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413336 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12129595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413336 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384319 035 $a(PQKB)10369095 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713791 035 $a(DE-B1597)523850 035 $a(OCoLC)1058520336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226893495 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL713791 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10412763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277591 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044192 100 $a20090128d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBulletproof$b[electronic resource] $eafterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond /$fJennifer Wenzel 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-89348-0 311 $a0-226-89347-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWriting 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 607 $aSouth Africa$xHistory$yXhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857 607 $aSouth Africa$xPolitics and government$y1836-1909 607 $aSouth Africa$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a968.04/5 700 $aWenzel$b Jennifer$f1969-$0991583 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459767603321 996 $aBulletproof$92269376 997 $aUNINA