Table of Contents:
  • Writing resurrection and reversal: the cattle killing and other nineteenth-century millennial dreams
  • Spectral and textual ancestors: new African intermediation and the politics of intertextuality
  • The promise of failure: memory, prophecy, and temporal disjunctures of the South African twentieth century
  • Weapons of struggle and weapons of memory: thinking time beyond apartheid
  • Ancestors without borders: the cattle killing as global reimaginary.