Bulletproof: afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond

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...

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Main Author: Wenzel, Jennifer 1969- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press 2009
In:Year: 2009
Reviews:Review: Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond, by Jennifer Wenzel (2012) (Cabrita, Joel)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa (Continent) / Millennialism / Anti-colonialism / History 1850-2000
B Xhosa / Anti-colonialism / Millennialism / Effects / History 1850-2000
Further subjects:B South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909
B South Africa Politics and government 20th century
B South Africa Politics and government 20th century
B South Africa History Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857
B South Africa History Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857
B South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909
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Summary: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
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 279-298
ISBN:0226893480