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Black Africans in the British imagination : English narratives of the early Atlantic world
- Title
- Black Africans in the British imagination : English narratives of the early Atlantic world / Cassander L. Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Cassander L., 1977-
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 223 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- English prose literature > 16th century > History and criticism
- English prose literature > 17th century > History and criticism
- Black people > Race identity > Atlantic Ocean Region
- Africans in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Travel writing > Atlantic Ocean Region
- Travel writing > America
- Imperialism in literature
- Blacks > Race identity
- English prose literature
- Race relations
- Spanish colonies
- Travel writing
- Spain > Colonies > Race relations. > America
- America
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Black Africans, a Black legend, and challenges of representation -- Points of origin: English voyages to Guinea -- Reconstructing the Ethiop: Sir Francis Drake and the simarrones of Panama -- Alliances real and imagined: Thomas Gage and Black African collaboration in New Spain -- Consuming beauty: Richard Ligon, Black African women, and a reciprocity of power -- Locating Africa in the Americas: George Best, Sir Walter Ralegh, and the quandaries of racial representation -- Afterword: beyond the mediation.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-211
- ISBN
- 9780807163849
- 0807163848
- LCCN
- 2016012831
- OCLC
- 959667285
- Author
- Smith, Cassander L., 1977- author.
- Title
- Black Africans in the British imagination : English narratives of the early Atlantic world / Cassander L. Smith.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-211