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| Title: | Mofolo's Chaka and the Bambata rebellion |
| Author: | Attwell, D. |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Periodical: | Research in African Literatures |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 51-70 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | Bambatha rebellion 1906 literature |
| About person: | Thomas Mofolo (1876-1948) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4618154 |
| Abstract: | By early 1910, Thomas Mofolo completed his manuscript of 'Chaka'. The central propositions of this article are that 1) 'Chaka' can be read as a response to the form of mobilization embodied in the Bambata rebellion of 1906-1908 in Natal and 2) the novel constitutes a Christian intervention into the ideological domain of emergent black nationalist political life in South Africa. The author looks at the influence on the novel of contemporaneous events (the Bambata rebellion, the arrest and conviction of Dinuzulu, the formation of the South African National Native Congress) in Natal and of Zulu history over the previous three decades. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
