Decadent Orientalisms
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8640-9 (ISBN)
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.
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).
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.03.2019 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8232-8640-1 / 0823286401 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8232-8640-9 / 9780823286409 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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