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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.