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The Deathly Embrace
Sheng-mei Ma
其他書名
Orientalism and Asian American Identity
出版U of Minnesota Press, 2000
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
ISBN08166371139780816637119
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bp6YL5ycdCAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.