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The politics of representation in Asian American literature.(Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s. The Asian American Experience)(The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity)(Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America)(Book Review)
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September 22, 2002
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Yin, Xiao-huang. 2000. Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s. The Asian American Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. $34.95 hc. 307 pp.
Ma, Sheng-Mei. 2000. The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $42.95 hc. $16.95 sc. xxiii + 208 pp.
Eng, David L. 2001. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Perverse Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press. $54.95 hc. $18.95 sc. 290 pp.
Since the 1970s, Frank Chin's infamous "war of words" with Maxine Hong Kingston, as one writer puts it, has become a "literary battle for the soul of Asian America" (Iwata 1990, 1). While ...