Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa

by Josiah Blackmore

How Africa was perceived in the early modern imaginary

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816648336
• ISBN13: 9780816648337
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"