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Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel



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Autore: Wenzel Jennifer <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina: 968.04/5
Soggetto geografico: South Africa History Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857
South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909
South Africa Politics and government 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Bulletproof  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-77591-X
9786612775918
0-226-89349-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825715303321
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