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Bulletproof : afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond /
Taking the Xhosa cattle killing as her focus, Wenzel offers something paradoxical: a new, anti-canonical canon of South African writing. Concerned with historical and literary 'failures', this work is a reflection on the fragmentary and spectral nature of echoes, influences, and prophecies...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.