TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fieni,David
TI  - Decadent Orientalisms: the decay of colonial modernity 
SN  - 9780823286423
AV  - DS61 .D433 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - France
KW  - Orientalism in literature
KW  - Decadence in literature
KW  - Decadence (Literary movement)
KW  - Regression (Civilization) in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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