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Decadent Orientalisms : the decay of colonial modernity / David Fieni

First edition

New York : Fordham University Press [2020], 2020

1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Fieni, David : Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity. - New York : Fordham University Press, ©2020 (Druck-Ausgabe)

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

France ; Decadence in literature ; Decadence (Literary movement) ; Orientalism ; Orientalism in literature ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature

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

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Introduction: Orientalist decadence -- French decadence, Arab awakening : figures of decay in the Nahda -- Al-shidyaq's decadent carnival -- From Dreyfus in the colony to Celine'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.