TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fieni,David
TI  - Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay of Colonial Modernity
SN  - 9780823286423
U1  - 303.48/24405 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- DECADENT ORIENTALISMS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Orientalist Decadence -- 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 -- 2. Al-Shidyaq's Decadent Carnival -- 3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline's Anti-Semitic Style -- Part II WORKING THROUGH POSTCOLONIAL DECADENCE -- 4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria -- 5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning -- 6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb's "Walking Cure" and the Immigrant Body in France -- Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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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