Deathly EmbraceA polemical analysis of the ways Orientalism speaks through the texts of prominent Asian American writers. Asian American resistance to Orientalismthe Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the Eastis 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