Description
Book SynopsisExamines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the cattle killing - harvest, sacrifice, rebirth, devastation - to speak to their contemporary predicaments.
Trade Review"Taking the Xhosa cattle killing as her focus, Wenzel offers something beautifully paradoxical: a new, anticanonical canon of South African writing. Concerned with historical and literary 'failures,' this work is a profound reflection on the fragmentary and spectral (but not therefore any less compelling) nature of echoes, influences, and prophecies. A work of sophistication and intellectual ambition, Bulletproof is a timely and innovative intervention in postcolonial studies." - Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania"
