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Author:

Smith, Cassander L., 1977- author.

Title:

Black Africans in the British imagination : English narratives of the early Atlantic world / Cassander L. Smith.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English prose literature--16th century--History and criticism.
English prose literature--17th century--History and criticism.
Blacks--Race identity--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Africans in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Travel writing--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Travel writing--America.
Imperialism in literature.
Spain--Race relations.--America--Race relations.
Africans in literature.
Blacks--Race identity.
Colonies in literature.
English prose literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Race relations.
Spanish colonies.
Travel writing.
America.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
1500-1699
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Black Africans, a Black legend, and challenges of representation -- Points of origin: English voyages to Guinea -- Reconstructing the Ethiop: Sir Francis Drake and the simarrones of Panama -- Alliances real and imagined: Thomas Gage and Black African collaboration in New Spain -- Consuming beauty: Richard Ligon, Black African women, and a reciprocity of power -- Locating Africa in the Americas: George Best, Sir Walter Ralegh, and the quandaries of racial representation -- Afterword: beyond the mediation.

ISBN:

0807163848
9780807163849

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959667285

LCCN:

2016012831

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)