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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Cassander L., 1977- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--16th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Black people--Race identity--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Black people.

Africans in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Travel writing--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Travel writing.

Travel writing--America.

Imperialism in literature.

Colonies.

Race relations.

Black people--Race identity.

Spain--Colonies--America--Race relations.

Spain.

Spanish colonies.

America.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780807163849

0807163848

OCLC:

959667285