LEADER 03421nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910825715303321 005 20230124190141.0 010 $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 610 $acolonial, colonialism, postcolonial, anticolonial, south africa, regional, african, 1800s, history, historical, academic, scholarly, justice, xhosa, tribe, tribal, famine, death, tragedy, ghost dance, birsa munda, uprising, equality, prophecy, interdisciplinary, oppression, liberation, intertextuality, politics, political, government, 19th, 20th, century, apartheid, race, racism. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a968.04/5 700 $aWenzel$b Jennifer$f1969-$01083132 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825715303321 996 $aBulletproof$93921522 997 $aUNINA