Decadent orientalisms, the decay of colonial modernity, David Fieni
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Decadent orientalisms, the decay of colonial modernity, David Fieni
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Decadent orientalisms
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bibliography
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1089004027
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David Fieni
Sub title
the decay of colonial modernity
Summary
"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"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Orientalist decadence -- French decadence, Arab awakening : figures of decay in the Nahda -- Al-shidyaq's decadent carnival -- From Dreyfus in the colony to Céline's anti-Semitic style -- Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Virtual secularization : Abdelwahab Meddeb's "walking cure" and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion: Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity
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