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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--History--Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857.

South Africa.

South Africa--Politics and government--1836-1909.

South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612775918

9781282775916

128277591X

9780226893495

0226893499

OCLC:

664571308