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Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond

Title
Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / Jennifer Wenzel.
Author
Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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xiv, 311 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Subject
  • South African literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • South African literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • African literature > Political aspects
  • South Africa > History > Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857
  • South Africa > Politics and government > 1836-1909
  • South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 09-1006
ISBN
  • 9780226893471 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226893488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226893472 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226893480 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009003740
  • 40017004936
OCLC
  • 262429527
  • 262429527
Author
Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-
Title
Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / Jennifer Wenzel.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40017004936
Research Call Number
Sc E 09-1006
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