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The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity by Ma, Sheng-Mei
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780816637119
- Book Title
- Deathly Embrace : Orientalism and Asian American Identity
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- American / Asian American, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 7.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816637113
ISBN-13
9780816637119
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1738785
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deathly Embrace : Orientalism and Asian American Identity
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
00-008866
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
305.895073
Synopsis
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 how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two., 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 how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two. To identify the multitude of historical forms appropriated by the deathly embrace of Orientalism and Asian American ethnicity, Ma highlights four types of cultural encounters, embodied in four metaphors of physical states: the "clutch of rape" in imperialist adventure narratives of the 1930s and 1940s, as seen in comic strips of Flash Gordon and Terry and the Pirates and in the Disney film Swiss Family Robinson; the "clash of arms" or martial metaphors in the 1970s and beyond, embodied in Bruce Lee, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and the video game Mortal Kombat; U.S. multicultural "flaunting" of ethnicity in the work of Amy Tan and in Disney's Mulan; and global postcolonial "masquerading" of ethnicity in the Anglo-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Broad in scope, penetrating in insight, Ma's work exposes the myriad ways in which Orientalism, an integral part of American culture, speaks through the texts of Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans alike. The result is a startling lesson in the construction of cultural identity., 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 how the distinguished careers of post-1960s Asian American writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Frank Chin, and David Henry Hwang reveal that while Asian American identity is constructed in reaction to Orientalism, the two cultural forces are not necessarily at odds. The vigor with which these Asian Americans revolt against Orientalism in fact tacitly acknowledges the family lineage of the two. To identify the multitude of historical forms appropriated by the deathly embrace of Orientalism and Asian American ethnicity, Ma highlights four types of cultural encounters, embodied in four metaphors of physical states: the "clutch of rape" in imperialist adventure narratives of the 1930s and 1940s, as seen in comic strips of Flash Gordon and Terry and the Pirates and in the Disney film Swiss Family Robinson; the "clash of arms" or martial metaphors in the 1970s and beyond, embodied in Bruce Lee, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and the video game Mortal Kombat; U.S. multicultural "flaunting" of ethnicity in the work of Amy Tan and in Disney's Mulan; and global postcolonial "masquerading" of ethnicity in the Anglo-Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.Broad in scope, penetrating in insight, Ma's work exposes the myriad ways in which Orientalism, an integral part of American culture, speaks through the texts of Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans alike. The result is a startling lesson in the construction of cultural identity.
LC Classification Number
E184.O6M22 2000
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