Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 1076 g
Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 1076 g
ISBN: 978-0-85255-441-8
Verlag: James Currey
Re-examines the evidence of what is known, or said to be known, about the life of the Zulu leader Shaka.
We know very little about Shaka. This statement may come as a surprise, since over the decades we have heard a great deal about this most famous - or infamous - of Zulu leaders. People will be familiar with a cluster of dramatic stories about Shaka, derived from school or university textbooks, museums, the film Zulu, television programmes, or word of mouth. Most of these stories have come to sound so familiar that they generally pass unquestioned. Virtually everything about the popular portrait is wrong. Dan Wylie re-examines what pretends to be the biography. He lays out all the available evidence on Shaka's reign. What emerges is a work of historical detection. There are many Zulu oral testimonies. These are as flawed - even if just as entertaining - as the four main white eyewitness accounts of Shaka's last four years. Like Jesus of Nazareth, hefty attention is paid to the end of his life, while other areas attract no evidence at all.
DAN WYLIE teaches in the Department of English at Rhodes University in Grahamstown
North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface: the buttocks problem
Under pressure: regional contexts c. 1780
Behind the matting screen: Shaka's birth c. 1781
Escaping the father: Shaka's youth c. 1781-1800
Waiting c. 1800-12
Foundations c. 1812-17
Turning Points c. 1820-3
Southward bound c. 1821-4
White men, Zulu women 1824-5
Wars with words & guns 1825-6
Grief 1826-7
White mischief 1827-8
Death & the aftermath
