Decadent Orientalisms - The Decay of Colonial Modernity

Informationen zum Autor David Fieni is Assistant Professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta. He is the translator of Laurent Dubreuil's Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression (Cornell). 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Fieni
• Editore: Fordham University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780823286409
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8640-9
• Pagine: 224
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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