The deathly embrace
Subtitle: orientalism and Asian American identity
By: Sheng-mei Ma.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Orientalism -- United States; Asian Americans and mass media; American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Asian Americans in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I Clutch of Rape: Imperialist Adventure Narratives ONE Imagining the Orient in the Golden Age of Adventure Comics 3 TWO Walt Disney's Swiss Family Robinson: Imperialist Ideology in Family Entertainment 38 PART II Clash of Arms THREE Martial Metaphors and Asian America 53 FOUR Vincent Chin and Baseball: Law, Racial Violence, and Masculinity 76 PART III Multicultural Flaunting of Ethnicity FIVE The Chinese Siamese Cat: Chinoiserie and Ethnic Stereotypes 95 SIX "Chinese and Dogs" in The Hundred Secret Senses: The Primitive a la New Age 112 SEVEN Mulan Disney, It's Like, Re-Orients: Consuming China and Animating Teen Dreams 126 PART IV Masquerading of Ethnicity EIGHT Kazuo Ishiguro's Persistent Dream for Postethnicity: Performance in Whiteface 147.