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Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity /

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 cliches and stereotypes, Fieni reads both Western and Islamic discourses of decadence to...

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Autor principal: Fieni, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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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