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Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond
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- Creator
- Jennifer Wenzel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226893471, 0226893480, 128277591X, 9780226893488, 0226893499, 0226893472, 9786612775918, 9780226893495
- OCLC
- on1058520336, ocn262429527, ocn664571308
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- South African literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
- South African literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
- 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.