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 Luis de Camoes. Blackmore's original work helps to
explain how concepts and myths-such as the "otherness" of Africa
and Africans-originated, 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.
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