03267nam 2200733Ia 450 991045461840332120200520144314.00-8166-6630-X(CKB)1000000000723045(EBL)433168(OCoLC)318219319(SSID)ssj0000205390(PQKBManifestationID)11172559(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205390(PQKBWorkID)10192643(PQKB)11631550(MiAaPQ)EBC433168(MdBmJHUP)muse39461(Au-PeEL)EBL433168(CaPaEBR)ebr10277741(CaONFJC)MIL526232(EXLCZ)99100000000072304520080718d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoorings[electronic resource] Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa /Josiah BlackmoreMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20091 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4833-6 0-8166-4832-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-195) and index.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.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 aAfricans in literatureHistoriographyPortugalHistory16th centuryHistoriographyPortugalHistoryTo 1500Imperialism in literatureMuslims in literaturePortuguese literatureHistory and criticismAfricaDescription and travelAfricaForeign public opinion, PortugueseAfricaHistoriographyPortugalColoniesAfricaElectronic books.Africans in literature.HistoriographyHistoryHistoriographyHistoryImperialism in literature.Muslims in literature.Portuguese literatureHistory and criticism.869.09960.22072Blackmore Josiah1959-929611MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454618403321Moorings2146821UNINA