Fieni Decadent Orientalisms

The Decay of Colonial Modernity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8642-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fieni, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Orientalist Decadence 1

Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire

1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda 31

2. Al-Shidyaq’s Decadent Carnival 52

3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style 68

Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence

4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria 97

5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning 118

6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s “Walking Cure” and the Immigrant Body in France 136

Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity 159

Acknowledgments 173

Notes 177

Select Bibliography 203

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Fieni David:
David Fieni is Assistant Professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta. He is the translator of Laurent Dubreuil’s Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression (Cornell).David Fieni is Assistant Professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta. He is the translator of Laurent Dubreuil’s Empire of Language: Toward a Critique of (Post)colonial Expression (Cornell).