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Author Wenzel, Jennifer, 1969-

Title Bulletproof [electronic resource] : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond / Jennifer Wenzel.

Imprint Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Description xiv, 311 p.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject South Africa -- History -- Xhosa Cattle-Killing, 1856-1857.
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909.
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226893471 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226893488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226893472 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226893480 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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