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Autore: |
Wenzel Jennifer <1969->
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Titolo: |
Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel
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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 ![]() |
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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