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Author:

Ma, Sheng-mei.

Title:

The deathly embrace : orientalism and Asian American identity / Sheng-mei Ma.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xxiii, 185 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Orientalism--United States.
Asian Americans and mass media.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177) and index.

Contents:

Clutch of rape: imperialist adventure narratives -- Imagining the Orient in the golden age of adventure comics -- Walt Disney's Swiss Family Robinson: imperialist ideology in family entertainment -- Clash of arms -- Martial metaphors and Asian America -- Vincent Chin and baseball: law, racial violence, and masculinity -- Multicultural flaunting of ethnicity -- The Chinese Siamese cat: chinoiserie and ethnic stereotypes -- "Chinese and dogs" in The hundred secret senses: the primative à la New Age -- Mulan Disney, it's like, re-Orients: consuming China and animating teen dreams -- Masquerading of ethnicity -- Kazuo Ishiguro's persistent dream for postethnicity: performance in whiteface.

ISBN:

9780816637119 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816637113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816637102 (alk. paper)
0816637105 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43757433

LCCN:

00008866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)