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Me : a book of remembrance
- Title
- Me : a book of remembrance / by Winnifred Eaton.
- Author
- Eaton, Winnifred, 1879-1954.
- Publication
- Jackson, Miss. : Banner Books, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3509.A87 M4 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 372 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- Winnifred Eaton published her books under a Japanese-sounding name, Onoto Watanna, but she was of Chinese ancestry. In Me: A Book of Remembrances, reissued here in a new edition, Nora Ascouth is a powerless young woman typical of the working class. In the narrative, as Nora journeys from her birthplace in Canada to search out a career, first in Jamaica, and then in the United States, Eaton imparts her own experiences with rejection and the struggle to gain success and love.
- The autobiographical plotline likewise discloses a remarkable secret, the author's ethnic shame and her reticence to speak of her own half-Chinese identity. Like other ethnic immigrants, Winnifred and Nora are indoctrinated by America's Anglo preference. Nora's painful search ends, however, as the author's did. She gains achievement as a novelist.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0878059911 (cloth)
- 087805992X (paper)
- LCCN
- 96052517
- OCLC
- 36126290
- ocm36126290
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries