Decadent orientalisms: the decay of colonial modernity

"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 decaden...

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Main Author: Fieni, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Fordham University Press 2020
Edition:First edition
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:vii, 220 Seiten
ISBN:9780823286393
9780823286409

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