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Autore |
Blackmore Josiah <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Moorings [[electronic resource] ] : Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa / / Josiah Blackmore |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Africans in literature |
Historiography - Portugal - History - 16th century |
Historiography - Portugal - History - To 1500 |
Imperialism in literature |
Muslims in literature |
Portuguese literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
Africa Description and travel |
Africa Foreign public opinion, Portuguese |
Africa Historiography |
Portugal Colonies Africa |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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