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Black Africans in the British Imagination : English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World /
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifical...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.