Decadent Orientalisms - The Decay of Colonial Modernity

Informationen zum Autor David Fieni Klappentext 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 show the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism's power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction : Orientalist Decadence | 1 Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire 1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda | 31 2. Al-Shidyaq's Decadent Carnival | 52 3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline's Anti-Semitic Style | 68 Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence 4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria | 97 5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning | 118 6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb's "Walking Cure" and the Immigrant Body in France | 136 Conclusion : Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity | 159 Acknowledgments | 173 Notes | 177 Select Bibliography | 203 Index | 215

Product details

• Authors: David Fieni
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780823286409
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8640-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Politik und Staat, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature