Fieni, David, <br/><br/>
Decadent Orientalisms :  the decay of colonial modernity / 
David Fieni. 
 - First edition. 
 - New York :  Fordham University Press,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Orientalist decadence --  French decadence, Arab awakening : figures of decay in the Nahda --  Al-shidyaq's decadent carnival --  From Dreyfus in the colony to Celine's anti-Semitic style --  Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria --  Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning --  Virtual secularization : Abdelwahab Meddeb's "walking cure" and the immigrant body in France --  Conclusion: Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780823286423 9780823286416 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Orientalism--France.<br/>Orientalism in literature.<br/>Decadence in literature.<br/>Decadence (Literary movement)--France.<br/>Regression (Civilization) in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS61  / .D433 2020