Bulletproof afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond /

Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-

Bulletproof afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / [electronic resource] : Jennifer Wenzel. - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009. - xiv, 311 p.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






South Africa--History--Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857.
South Africa--Politics and government--1836-1909.
South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.


Electronic books.

DT1863 / .W46 2009

968.04/5