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Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa
Josiah Blackmore
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Description for Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBAH; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 representation in European literature. Moorings establishes these key works in their proper place: foundational to Western imperial discourse.
Attentive to history as well as the nuances of language, Josiah Blackmore leads readers from the formation of the “Moor” in medieval Iberia to the construction of a full colonial imaginary, as found in the works of ... Read more
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 representation in European literature. Moorings establishes these key works in their proper place: foundational to Western imperial discourse.
Attentive to history as well as the nuances of language, Josiah Blackmore leads readers from the formation of the “Moor” in medieval Iberia to the construction of a full colonial imaginary, as found in the works of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648337
SKU
V9780816648337
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99-50
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