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Edition 2 (1990) Winner
Jeffrey Brian Peires
ジェフリー・ブライアン・ペイレス
Jefurī Burain Peiresu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Cape Town
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Cape Town → Eastern Cape → Grahamstown
Career
- Occupations
- historian, politician, civil servant
- Active Years
- 1972-2022
- Affiliations
- University of Fort Hare, Rhodes University
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Cape Town | — | History | — | 1972頃 | South Africa |
| University of Wisconsin–Madison | — | History | — | 1972-1975 | United States |
University of Cape Town
History
Period:
1972頃
Country:
South Africa
University of Wisconsin–Madison
History
Period:
1972-1975
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Alan Paton Award | The Dead Will Arise | non-fiction | Sunday Times | winner |
Alan Paton Award
1990
Work:
The Dead Will Arise
Category:
non-fiction
Organization:
Sunday Times
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Sunday Times CNA Literary Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1990) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–7
1989 HistoryA monograph on the Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–57, emphasizing the role of Nongqawuse's prophecies over materialist explanations.
Xhosa cattle-killingmillenarianismcolonial historyXhosa historiography
Adaptations
- [novel] The Heart of Redness / Zakes Mda (2000)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- critical historiographyuse of Xhosa sources
Legacy
Renowned South African historian of Xhosa history, particularly the cattle-killing movement, inaugurating a more critical historiographical phase.
In Popular Culture
- Provided textual basis for Zakes Mda's novel The Heart of Redness.
Quotes
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'It was Peires's rendition of that story that inspired my fiction rather than the historical events themselves, and I had to make that obvious in my fiction by deliberately using Peires's phraseology as an intertextual device.'
Source: Mail & Guardian (2008)
Trivia
- Jewish. His mother Juliete Peires is a published Holocaust historian.
- Elected to the National Assembly for the African National Congress in the 1994 post-apartheid election but resigned before term end.