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First edition. |
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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Orientalism -- France.
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Orientalism. |
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France. |
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Orientalism in literature.
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Orientalism in literature. |
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Decadence in literature.
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Decadence (Literary movement) -- France.
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Decadence in literature. |
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Regression (Civilization) in literature.
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Decadence (Literary movement) |
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Regression (Civilization) in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fieni, David. Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity. New York : Fordham University Press, ©2020 |
| ISBN |
9780823286423 (electronic book) |
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0823286428 (electronic book) |
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9780823286416 (electronic book) |
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082328641X (electronic book) |
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9780823286409 |
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0823286401 |
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9780823286393 |
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0823286398 |
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