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Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity / / David Fieni



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Autore: Fieni David Visualizza persona
Titolo: Decadent Orientalisms : The Decay of Colonial Modernity / / David Fieni Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
Disciplina: 303.48/24405
Soggetto topico: Orientalism - France
Orientalism in literature
Decadence in literature
Decadence (Literary movement) - France
Soggetto non controllato: Arabic literature
Francophone literature
Islam
Maghreb
Orientalism
colonial modernity
decadence
language politics
philology
secularism
Classificazione: IG 4280
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orientalist decadence -- Chapter 1. French decadence, Arab awakenings: figures of decay in the Nahda -- Chapter 2. Al- shidyaq’s decadent carnival -- Chapter 3. From Dreyfus in the colony to Céline's anti- semitic style -- Chapter 4. Resurrecting colonial decadence in independent Algeria -- Chapter 5. Algerian women and the invention of literary mourning -- Chapter 6. Virtual secularization: Abdelwahab meddeb’s “walking cure” and the immigrant body in France -- Conclusion. Toward a contrapuntal double critique of colonial modernity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Decadent 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Decadent Orientalisms  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8642-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793813103321
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