Rendering the Cape-as-Port: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms/Good Hope, Adamastor and Local-World Literary Formations.

This article charts the tropes through which the Cape-as-port is rendered across five and a half centuries: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms and Cape of Good Hope. These tropes coalesce and draw apart in the monstrous manifestation of the promontory and its tempests that takes the shape of the epic figu...

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Published in:	Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 523 - 538
Main Author:	Samuelson, Meg
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2016
Subjects:	Cape Town (South Africa) Africa Legends Adamastor (Legendary character) Geographic boundaries African literature South African history
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