Terrific Majesty : : The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention / / Carolyn Hamilton.
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 centerpi...
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Hamilton, Carolyn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Terrific Majesty : The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention / Carolyn Hamilton. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©1998 1 online resource (294 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Orthographic and Terminological Notes -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Painted chests, academic body servants, and visions of modern airlines: Shaka in contemporary discourses -- 2. The origins of the image of Shaka -- 3. The men who would be Shaka: Shaka as a model for the Natal native administration -- 4. “The establishment of a living source of tradition”: James Stuart and the genius of Shakan despotism -- 5. Shaka as metaphor, memory, and history in apartheid South Africa -- 6. “The Government resembles Tshaka” -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Nationalism South Africa. Zulu (African people) History. Zulu (African people) Kings and rulers Biography. HISTORY / Africa / South / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038202 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674038202 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674038202/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Orthographic and Terminological Notes -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. Painted chests, academic body servants, and visions of modern airlines: Shaka in contemporary discourses -- 2. The origins of the image of Shaka -- 3. The men who would be Shaka: Shaka as a model for the Natal native administration -- 4. “The establishment of a living source of tradition”: James Stuart and the genius of Shakan despotism -- 5. Shaka as metaphor, memory, and history in apartheid South Africa -- 6. “The Government resembles Tshaka” -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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