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Moorings
Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa
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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 two writers: the royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara and the epic poet Luís de Camões. Blackmores original work helps to explain how concepts and mythssuch as the otherness of Africa and Africansoriginated, functioned, and were perpetuated. Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, Moorings enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.
University of Minnesota Press; December 2008
230 pages; ISBN 9780816666300
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230 pages; ISBN 9780816666300
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > History of Africa > Description and travel
- Academic > History > History of Africa > History
- Academic > History > History of Africa > Central Sub-Saharan Africa
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- Literary Criticism > European
- History > Africa
- History > Colonial Studies
- History > World
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
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9780816666300
9780816648320
081666630X
