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Decadent orientalisms : the decay of colonial modernity / David Fieni

Fieni, David [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

First edition

New York : Fordham University Press, 2020

vii, 220 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Decadent Orientalisms / David Fieni (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8232-8640-9 (hardback); 978-0-8232-8639-3 (paperback)

2019028512

9780823286409

OCoLC: 1146072847     

IG 4280      Ähnliche Literatur

DS61.85

303.48/24405

*Französisches Sprachgebiet ; Dekadenzliteratur ; Orientalisierende Literatur      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Orientalism -- France ; Orientalism in literature ; Decadence in literature ; Decadence (Literary movement) -- France

"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"--