Title: Decadent Orientalisms
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"--
Subjects: Asia, history, Decadence in literature, Decadence (literary movement), Orientalism, Orientalism in literature