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Author | : Carolyn Hamilton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674038202 |
Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu--founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa--has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. Terrific Majesty explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image, examining the ways it has changed over time--from colonial legend, through Africanist idealization, to modern cultural icon. This study suggests that "tradition" cannot be freely invented, either by European observers who recorded it or by subsequent African ideologues. There are particular historical limits and constraints that operate on the activities of invention and imagination and give the various images of Shaka their power. These insights are illustrated with subtlety and authority in a series of highly original analyses. Terrific Majesty is an exceptional work whose special contribution lies in the methodological lessons it delivers; above all its sophisticated rehabilitation of colonial sources for the precolonial period, through the demonstration that colonial texts were critically shaped by indigenous African discourse. With its sensitivity to recent critical studies, the book will also have a wider resonance in the fields of history, anthropology, cultural studies, and postcolonial literature.
Author | : Thomas Peter Akers |
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Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Greensburg (Ky.) |
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Author | : Richard Cumberland |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Total Pages | : 1038 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
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Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
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Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
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Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : John Ward |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Southcottians |
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Author | : Lionel Thomas Berguer |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : English essays |
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Author | : Charles Brockden Brown |
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Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Todd Kontje |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271093854 |
Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, Forster was also a prolific writer and translator who left behind two travelogues, a series of essays on diverse topics, and numerous letters. This in-depth look at Forster’s work and life reveals his importance for other writers of the age. Todd Kontje traces the major intellectual themes and challenges found in Forster’s writings, interweaving close textual analysis with his rich but short life. Each chapter engages with themes that reflect the current debates in eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, including changing notions of authorship, multilingualism, the representation of so-called primitive societies, Enlightenment ideas about race, and early forms of ecological thinking. As Kontje shows, Forster’s peripatetic life, malleable sense of national identity, and fluency in multiple languages contrast with the image of the solitary genius in the “age of Goethe.” In this way, Forster provides a different model of authorship and citizenship better understood in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Compellingly argued and engagingly written, this book restores Forster to his rightful place within the German literary tradition, and in so doing, it urges us to reconsider the age of Goethe as multilingual and malleable, local and cosmopolitan, dynamic and decentered. It will be welcomed by specialists in German studies and the Enlightenment.