Decadent Orientalisms
Subtitle: The Decay of Colonial Modernity
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780823286393
Subjects: Asia, history
Description: "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"--