Decadent Orientalisms : the decay of colonial modernity

Decadent Orientalisms : the decay of colonial modernity / David Fieni.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fieni, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Orientalism > France.
Orientalism in literature.
Decadence in literature.
Decadence (Literary movement) > France.
Regression (Civilization) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
Regression (Civilization) in literature
Decadence in literature
Decadence (Literary movement)
Orientalism
Orientalism in literature
France
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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 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.

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