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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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