David Fieni

Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Fieni reads both Western and Islamic discourses of decadence to show the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism¿s power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780823286409
• ISBN-10: 0823286401
• Artikelnr.: 55394813

Autorenporträt

David Fieni

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Orientalist Decadence 1 Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire 1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda 31 2. Al-Shidyaq
s Decadent Carnival 52 3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline
s Anti-Semitic Style 68 Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence 4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria 97 5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning 118 6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb
s
Walking Cure
and the Immigrant Body in France 136 Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity 159 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 177 Select Bibliography 203 Index 215