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Introduction: Orientalist Decadence | 1
Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda | 31
2. Al-Shidyaq’s Decadent Carnival | 52
3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style | 68
Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence
4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria | 97
5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning | 118
6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s “Walking Cure” and the Immigrant Body in France | 136
Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity | 159
Acknowledgments | 173
Notes | 177
Select Bibliography | 203
Index | 215

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 07/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823286393, 978-0823286393
      ISBN10: 0823286398
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Orientalist Decadence | 1
      Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire
      1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda | 31
      2. Al-Shidyaq’s Decadent Carnival | 52
      3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style | 68
      Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence
      4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria | 97
      5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning | 118
      6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s “Walking Cure” and the Immigrant Body in France | 136
      Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity | 159
      Acknowledgments | 173
      Notes | 177
      Select Bibliography | 203
      Index | 215

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