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Decadent Orientalisms - The Decay of Colonial Modernity (Paperback)
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Decadent Orientalisms - The Decay of Colonial Modernity (Paperback)
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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 cliches and
stereotypes, Decadent Orientalisms considers the systemic
epistemological consequences of the diffuse, yet coherent network
of institutions that have constituted Orientalism's power.
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