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Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.