Moorings
Subtitle: Portuguese expansion and the writing of Africa
By: Josiah Blackmore.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780816648320; 9780816648337
Subjects: Africans in literature; Muslims in literature; Imperialism in literature; Historiography -- Portugal -- History -- To 1500; Historiography -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century; Portuguese literature -- History and criticism; Africa -- Historiography; Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa; Africa -- Description and travel; Africa -- Foreign public opinion, Portuguese
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Into Africa; title: Encountering the African; title: Some medieval formulations; title: The African in-between; title: Expansion and the contours of Africa; title: Routes, histories, and chronicles; title: Strangeness under the imperial sun; title: Africa and the imagination; title: The monster of melancholy; title: Adamastor melancholicus; title: The masculine ship; title: The devil's map.