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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


