Bulletproof
Subtitle: afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond
By: Jennifer Wenzel.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226893471; 9780226893488
Subjects: South Africa -- History -- Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing resurrection and reversal: the cattle killing and other nineteenth-century millennial dreams; title: Spectral and textual ancestors: new African intermediation and the politics of intertextuality; title: The promise of failure: memory, prophecy, and temporal disjunctures of the South African twentieth century; title: Weapons of struggle and weapons of memory: thinking time beyond apartheid; title: Ancestors without borders: the cattle killing as global reimaginary.