- See J. and J. Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1991), 15.See also M. de Certeau, The Writing of History, trans. T. Conley (New York, 1988);D. LaCapra, Soundings in Critical Theory (Ithaca, 1989)
- See below and K. Fields, Revival and Rebellion in Colonial Central Africa (Princeton, 1985)
- See Comaroff and Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, 26;C.C. Crais, White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865 (Cambridge, 1991)
- 1991 . The American Historical Review , 96 ( 2 ) Apr. : 576 – 7 . This point has been made in a review of The Dead Will Arise by Randall Packard in
- This problem is particularly pronounced in the chapter entitled ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Xhosa Cattle-Killing’
- These issues have been of considerable debate.See Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge, 1988).See also the recent forum devoted to That Noble Dream in The American Historical Review 96, 3 (June 1991), 675–708
- White Supremacy and Black Resistance , 5 22 – 3 . Crais,, 204–10
- This new work suggests that the the prophetic visions embrace what Comaroff and Comaroff have described as a ‘realm of partial recognition’ which they argue constitutes ‘the most critical domain of all for historical anthropology and especially for the analysis of colonialism’: Comaroff and Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, 29;and the special issue on colonialism in American Ethnologist 16, 4 (Nov. 1989).See also the brilliant recent article by G.M. Spiegel, ‘History, Historicism and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages’, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 65,1 (Jan. 1990), 59–86. On representation generally see R. Chattier, Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations, trans. L. Cochrane (Ithaca, 1988), 44.1 explore the problem of representation in ‘The Vacant Land: The Political Mythology of British Expansion in the Eastern Cape, South Africa’, Journal of Social History 25, 2 (Dec. 1991), in press, and ‘Representation and the Politics of Identity in South Africa: An Eastern Cape Example’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, forthcoming
- de Certeau , M. 1986 . Heterologies: Discourse on the Other Edited by: Massumi , B. 203 Minneapolis trans. (De Certeau goes so far as to suggest that history ‘colonizes’. See de Certeau, The Writing of History, 72
- LaCapra , D. 1985 . History and Criticism 72 Ithaca
- Comaroff and Comaroff . Of Revelation and Revolution 13 – 19 . See also, esp. See also his Soundings in Critical Theory, esp. 30–66.de Certeau, The Writing of History, esp. 56–113;LaCapra, Sounding? in Critical Theory, 30–66
- See J. Krikler, ‘Waiting for the Historians’, review of Holding Their Ground: Class, Locality and Culture in 19th and 20th Century South Africa, in Southern African Review of Books (August/October 1990), 16–7;W. Worger, ‘White Radical History in South Africa’ and C. Saunders, ‘Radical History—The Wits Workshop Version—Reviewed’ in South African Historical Journal 24 (May 1991), 145–53, 160–5. Worger and Saunders were reviewing the special issue of Radical History Review 46/7, entitled ‘History from South Africa’
- Maier , C. S. 1988 . The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity Cambridge, Mass.
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