LEADER 03695nam 22006375 450 001 9910480173803321 005 20210716003847.0 010 $a0-8232-8642-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286423 035 $a(CKB)4100000009938655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987164 035 $a(DE-B1597)555085 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286423 035 $a(OCoLC)1130027662 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009938655 100 $a20200723h20202020 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecadent Orientalisms $eThe Decay of Colonial Modernity /$fDavid Fieni 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Orientalist decadence --$tChapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the Nahda --$tChapter 2. Al- shidyaq?s decadent carnival --$tChapter 3. From Dreyfus in the colony to Céline's anti- semitic style --$tChapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria --$tChapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning --$tChapter 6. Virtual secularization: Abdelwahab meddeb?s ?walking cure? and the immigrant body in France --$tConclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tSelect bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aDecadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni shows the importance of understanding Western discourses of Eastern decline and obsolescence together with Arab and Islamic responses in which the language of decadence returns as a characteristic of the West. Taking seriously Edward Said?s claim that Orientalism is a ?style of having power,? Fieni works historically through the aesthetic and ideological effects of Orientalist style, showing how it is at once comparative, descriptive, and performative. Orientalism, the book argues, relies upon decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims become redistributed as speech acts??truths? that establish dominance. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Decadent Orientalisms considers the systemic epistemological consequences of the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism?s power. 606 $aOrientalism$zFrance 606 $aOrientalism in literature 606 $aDecadence in literature 606 $aDecadence (Literary movement)$zFrance 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aArabic literature. 610 $aFrancophone literature. 610 $aIslam. 610 $aMaghreb. 610 $aOrientalism. 610 $acolonial modernity. 610 $adecadence. 610 $alanguage politics. 610 $aphilology. 610 $asecularism. 615 0$aOrientalism 615 0$aOrientalism in literature. 615 0$aDecadence in literature. 615 0$aDecadence (Literary movement) 676 $a303.48/24405 700 $aFieni$b David$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01038303 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480173803321 996 $aDecadent Orientalisms$92469780 997 $aUNINA