Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / Josiah Blackmore.

In this first book to study Portuguese texts about Africa, Moorings brings an important but little-known body of European writings to bear on contemporary colonial thought. Images of Africa as monstrous, dangerous, and lush were created in early Portuguese imperial writings and dominated its represe...

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Main Author: Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Into Africa -- Encountering the African -- Some medieval formulations -- The African in-between -- Expansion and the contours of Africa -- Routes, histories, and chronicles -- Strangeness under the imperial sun -- Africa and the imagination -- The monster of melancholy -- Adamastor melancholicus -- The masculine ship -- The devil's map. 
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