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. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni shows the importance of understanding Western d...
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Fieni, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity / David Fieni. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orientalist decadence -- Part I. (Dis)integrating semitism: French and arabic in the twilight of the ottoman empire -- Chapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the nahda -- Chapter 2. Al- shidyaq’s decadent carnival -- Chapter 3. From dreyfus in the colony to céline’s anti- semitic style -- Part II. Working through postcolonial decadence -- Chapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Chapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Chapter 6. Virtual secularization: abdelwahab meddeb’s “walking cure” and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni shows the importance of understanding Western discourses of Eastern decline and obsolescence together with Arab and Islamic responses in which the language of decadence returns as a characteristic of the West.Taking seriously Edward Said’s claim that Orientalism is a “style of having power,” Fieni works historically through the aesthetic and ideological effects of Orientalist style, showing how it is at once comparative, descriptive, and performative. Orientalism, the book argues, relies upon decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims become redistributed as speech acts—“truths” that establish dominance. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Decadent Orientalisms considers the systemic epistemological consequences of the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism’s power. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Decadence (Literary movement) France. Decadence in literature. Orientalism in literature. Orientalism France. Islamic Studies. Literary Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. bisacsh Arabic literature. Francophone literature. Islam. Maghreb. Orientalism. colonial modernity. decadence. language politics. philology. secularism. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2020 English 9783110704747 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2020 9783110704532 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110722710 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823286423?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823286423 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823286423/original |
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Fieni, David, Fieni, David, Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orientalist decadence -- Part I. (Dis)integrating semitism: French and arabic in the twilight of the ottoman empire -- Chapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the nahda -- Chapter 2. Al- shidyaq’s decadent carnival -- Chapter 3. From dreyfus in the colony to céline’s anti- semitic style -- Part II. Working through postcolonial decadence -- Chapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Chapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Chapter 6. Virtual secularization: abdelwahab meddeb’s “walking cure” and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orientalist decadence -- Part I. (Dis)integrating semitism: French and arabic in the twilight of the ottoman empire -- Chapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the nahda -- Chapter 2. Al- shidyaq’s decadent carnival -- Chapter 3. From dreyfus in the colony to céline’s anti- semitic style -- Part II. Working through postcolonial decadence -- Chapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Chapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Chapter 6. Virtual secularization: abdelwahab meddeb’s “walking cure” and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orientalist decadence -- Part I. (Dis)integrating semitism: French and arabic in the twilight of the ottoman empire -- Chapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the nahda -- Chapter 2. Al- shidyaq’s decadent carnival -- Chapter 3. From dreyfus in the colony to céline’s anti- semitic style -- Part II. Working through postcolonial decadence -- Chapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Chapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Chapter 6. Virtual secularization: abdelwahab meddeb’s “walking cure” and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index |
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