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Paperback The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity Book

ISBN: 0816637113

ISBN13: 9780816637119

The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity

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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...

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