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- Book Title
- Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of His
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780674874466
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Terrific Majesty : the Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention
- Item Length
- 13.5 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Africa / General, Africa / South / General, Modern / 19th Century, Historical
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 7.8 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a theme park, even the subject of a TV film. This book explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674874463
ISBN-13
9780674874466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
251731
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Terrific Majesty : the Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Africa / General, Africa / South / General, Modern / 19th Century, Historical
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
13.5 in
Item Height
7.8 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-010551
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Dt1768.Z95h36 1998
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There is absolutely no doubt that this material deserves a wide audience. I am sure that on her central point Carolyn Hamilton is correct. That central point seems to me a commonsensical one, one that is only striking in the current moment in which it has been influentially denied: namely, that African (in this case, both Zulu and non-Zulu) representations shaped what V. Y. Mudimbe calls "the colonial library.", Carolyn Hamilton's new book is not a history of Shaka; it is rather a history of the histories of Shaka, an attempt to understand [its] changing presentations. This might, at first glance, seem a thoroughly postmodern kind of project, hinting at a fascination with history as representation rather than a concern with what actually happened in the past. But at its best it is more than this, as Hamilton presents very real debates about what did happen, and she does so in the face of a profound, bitter and not infrequently violent historical controversy., She reveals the various ways in which the image of Shaka has been used in political struggles in eastern South Africa, from his lifetime right up to the present day. Her work has real relevance to contemporary politics, addressing the extreme bloodshed in Natal in the late 1980s, and the possibilities of drawing on the region's "heritage" to create the reconciled "rainbow nation" in the early 1990s...Hamilton's argument has significance well beyond the confines of Southern African studies. Her emphasis on the historical dynamics of invented traditions is salutary. Her insistence that local politics and cultural systems place limits on the invention of tradition carries lessons for all those who, following Edward Thompson, aim to rescue their subjects from "the enormous condescension of posterity." Her methodology, too, has wider application...Hamilton's book is inspiring, not least, because it suggests a life beyond post-modernist relativism., The great originality of the book is that it demonstrates the way in which later representations of Shaka remain broadly true to the original discourse, formulated during Shaka's reign. This book also challenges post-modernist historiography, not by a lot of positivist tub-thumping, but by using the methods of discourse analysis to bring out the historical constraints on the various images of Shaka, and their roots in the actual situation of his reign. This book has no competitors: it is the first of its kind, certainly in precolonial and colonial studies., The book is both a thoughtful disquisition on the irreducible ambiguity of knowing the past, and a work of rigorous deductive empiricism, in which the reliability of particular historical voices is interrogated. Hamilton shows the way elements of precolonial African authority were tendentiously apprehended by colonial officials, and contested by Africans, as a "Shaka" tradition. She rejects the idea that historical meaning is produced moment by moment; instead she shows how all reinterpretations of the Zulu kingdom have been constrained by popular traditions rooted in genuine historical experience...As a piece of scholarship, Terrific Majesty will be indispensable reading for students of the sources for Zulu history. More than this, and almost alone in recent Africanist scholarship, it is an effortless read., Hamilton has brilliantly and with great clarity used the literary methodology of deconstruction to counter those who would see in colonial writing simply inventions of the "other." What Hamilton says has far wider implications for the possibilities of writing the history of preliterate peoples.There are historical constraints and limits attached to themetaphorical use of Shaka and of "Zuluness" which leave it open to different interpretations, but which have an irreducible core recoverable through careful sifting. The great value of Hamilton's work is that she shows how this can be done by actually doing it herself., Hamilton's thought-provoking monograph on the persistence of Shaka as a metaphor in South African history and politics and the changing representations of the famous Zulu king over time constitutes a subtle excursion in philosophy of history and discourse analysis. Her major argument challenges most postmodernist interpretations of the Shakan legend by suggesting that Shaka was not simply a colonial invention...Hamilton deftly analyzes the construction of the Zulu past through a variety of discourses., As the title suggests, Hamilton's book is not a biography of Shaka, but rather an exploration of his evolution as an icon of African "tribalism" and Zulu nationalism...Hamilton spends little time on Shaka the man, devoting her attention instead to the different ways in which South African communities have chosen to remember him...Hamilton's study is extremely erudite, and her argument is well-grounded in the relevant literatures of history, anthropology, and cultural studies...The book makes an important contribution to the field of Southern African Studies, while drawing conclusions that have implications outside of Africa.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
1998
Dewey Decimal
968.4/039/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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