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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780823286409
• ISBN-10: 0823286401
• Artikelnr.: 55394813

Autorenporträt

David Fieni is Assistant Professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta. He is the translator of Laurent Dubreuil's Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression (Cornell).

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