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Blackmore, Josiah. Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Examines how European literature represented Africa as monstrous, dangerous, and lush in early Portuguese imperial writings during the 15th and 16th centuries. The scope of the book focuses on works by Gomes Eanes de Zurara in the 15th century and Camões’s Os Lusíadas in the 16th century to represent the Portuguese imperial discourse. Blackmore engages Portuguese textual matter of Africa during the 16th century to understand an important moment in the history of western expansion.
