{"product_id":"decadent-orientalisms-the-decay-of-colonial-modernity-hardback-9780823286409","title":"Decadent Orientalisms; The Decay of Colonial Modernity (Hardback) 9780823286409","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDecadent Orientalisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Decay of Colonial Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Fieni (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286409\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.498 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecadent Orientalisms\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDecadent Orientalisms\u003c\/i\u003e considers the systemic epistemological consequences of the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism's power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Orientalist Decadence   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I:\u003c\/b\u003e (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda   31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eAl-Shidyaq's Decadent Carnival   52\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline's Anti-Semitic Style   68\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e Working Through Postcolonial Decadence\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eResurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria   97\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning   118\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003eVirtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb's \"Walking Cure\" and the Immigrant Body in France   136\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity   159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   203\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   215\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580355997976,"sku":"9780823286409","price":75.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/decadent-orientalisms-the-decay-of-colonial-modernity-hardback-9780823286409","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}