The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity

by Sheng-Mei Ma

Book Overview

A polemical analysis of the ways Orientalism speaks through the texts of prominent Asian American writers.

Asian American resistance to Orientalism--the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East--is usually assumed. And yet, as this provocative work demonstrates, in order to refute racist stereotypes they must first be evoked, and in the process the two often become entangled. Sheng-mei Ma shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816637113
• ISBN13: 9780816637119
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"