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Author Blackmore, Josiah, 1959-

Title Moorings : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / Josiah Blackmore.

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
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 McFarlin Books  DT36.3 .B58 2009     AVAILABLE
Descript xxiv, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Africans in literature.
Muslims in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Historiography -- Portugal -- History -- To 1500.
Historiography -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century.
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism.
Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa.
Africa -- Historiography.
Africa -- Description and travel.
Africa -- Foreign public opinion, Portuguese.
ISBN 0816648328 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780816648320 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0816648336 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816648337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Permanent URL http://library.utulsa.edu//record=b2364971
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