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Moorings：Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blackmore Josiah 1959-
Published: University of Minnesota Press,
Publisher Address: Minneapolis
Publication Dates: c2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Africans in literature
Muslims in literature
Imperialism in literature
Historiography > Portugal > History > To 1500
Historiography > Portugal > History > 16th century
Portuguese literature > History and criticism
Historiografía > Portugal
Literatura portuguesa > Historia y crítica
Kolonialismus
Rezeption
Literatur
Africa > Historiography
África
África > En la literatura
Portugal > Colonias > África
Africa > Description and travel
Africa > Foreign public opinion, Portuguese
Portugal > Colonies > Africa
Afrika
Portugal
Carrier Form: xxiv, 203 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0816648328 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816648320 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816648336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816648337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: K552
CLC: K552.3
K400
Call Number: K400/B629
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.
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.
Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.

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