Restless identities : signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity, and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c. 1936)

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Title:

Author:

La Hausse, Paul.

ISBN:

9780869809570

Personal Author:

La Hausse, Paul.

Publication Information:

Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xvi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Contents:

Social History, Ethnicity and Historiography -- 'The Night Cometh When No Man Can Work': the Politics of the Zulu Cultural Revival and the Origins of Zulu Nationalism -- Petros Lamula (c. 1881-1948) and the Death of the Past -- The Antbear Bull Who Never Sleeps: Culture, Identity and the Early Career of Petros Lamula, 1901-19 -- 'The Fortunes of the Aliens': the Conversion of Sipetu Lamula -- 'Respectable Rebellion': the Zulu Intelligentsia in War-Time Durban -- The Professor of the Hidden Sciences: Inkatha, Zulu Ethnicity and Economic Nationalism, 1920-4 -- 'The Past Glory of the Race': Self-Help and Racial Separatism -- 'European Civilisation through Cheap Native Labour': Inkatha's Origins -- The Scholar Patriot: The Search for a Zulu Past, 1924-6 -- 'The Book of the Nation': the Forgotten History of UZulukaMalandela -- 'The Voice of the Zulu Nation': the Natal African Congress -- Agitator No. 243: Separatist Church Leader and Rural Activist, 1926-36 -- 'A New Heaven and Earth': Preachers and Rural Politics -- 'A Pure Zulu Born': the Rise and Fall of the United Native National Church of Christ -- Bringing the Body Back Home: Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936) and the Limits of Zulu History -- A Zulu Mabalane: The Fall of the House of Maling, 1890-1912 -- 'We Cannot Go Backwards': the Making and Unmaking of a Zulu Landowner -- 'Birds of the Same Feather': Lymon Maling and a Zulu Migrant Elite on the Rand -- The Well-Dressed Induna: Zulu History and the Politics of Memory, 1910-26 -- 'From Time Immemorial': the Origins of the Abaqulusi Land Union.

Personal Subject:

Lamula, Petros, 1880 or 1881-1948.

Maling, Mengerhausen Lymon Ernest, 1889-1936 or 1937.

Corporate Subject:

Inkatha (Organization : South Africa) -- History.

African National Congress -- History.

Subject Term:

Nationalists -- South Africa -- Biography.

Politicians -- South Africa -- Biography.

Zulu (African people) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1909-1948.

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Summary

This book seeks to retrieve the lives of two extraordinary individuals who have disappeared from the story of African nationalism in South Africa. Petros Lamula and Lymon Maling were profoundly influential political figures in Natal and Zululand between 1910 and 1940. Lamula was a fiery cooperative movement ideologue, pioneering Zulu historian, architect of the first Inkatha organisation, leader of the radical African National Congress in Natal and, finally, a separatist church leader. Maling was a former mine clerk who founded an ambitious Zulu political organisation, the Abaqulusi Land Union, and went on to become a controversial popular historian, chiefly representative and royal agent. In Restless Identities the prism of biography is used to capture the complex social identities of its subjects without reducing them to ciphers of larger historical processes. It draws us directly into the little-understood world of Zulu cultural nationalism and suggests the contested process of re-imagining the Zulu nation. Lamula and Maling's hitherto lost biographies dramatise the limits of our understanding of those intellectually heterodox, socially marginal and culturally innovative individuals whose imagination and opportunism were so vital to the history of African nationalism in South Africa, but whose stories have yet to be told.