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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 show the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism's power. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780823286423 |


