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

• Autore: Wenzel Jennifer <1969->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II