Bulletproof [[electronic resource] ] : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel
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| Autore: |
Wenzel Jennifer <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Bulletproof [[electronic resource] ] : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / / Jennifer Wenzel
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 968.04/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Africa History Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857 |
| South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909 | |
| South Africa Politics and government 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | colonial, 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 |
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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