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Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa
- Title
- Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / Josiah Blackmore.
- Author
- Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 203 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Africa > Historiography
- Africa > Description and travel
- Africa > Foreign public opinion, Portuguese
- Portuguese literature > History and criticism
- Historiography > Portugal > History > 16th century
- Muslims in literature
- Historiography > Portugal > History > To 1500
- Portugal > Colonies > Africa
- Imperialism in literature
- Africans in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 09-586
- ISBN
- 0816648328 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780816648320 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0816648336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780816648337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008032085
- OCLC
- 229031021
- Author
- Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-
- Title
- Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / Josiah Blackmore.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 09-586