Decadent Orientalisms : the decay of colonial modernity /

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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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fieni, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Orientalisme > France.
Décadence dans la littérature.
Décadentisme > France.
Orientalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
Regression (Civilization) in literature
Decadence in literature
Decadence (Literary movement)
Orientalism
Orientalism in literature
France
Arabic literature.
Francophone literature.
Islam.
Maghreb.
Orientalism.
colonial modernity.
decadence.
language politics.
philology.
secularism.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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