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Edith and Winnifred Eaton : Chinatown missions and Japanese romances

Title: Edith and Winnifred Eaton : Chinatown missions and Japanese romances / Dominika Ferens.
Author: Ferens, Dominika, 1964-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xii, 221 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.
In this reappraisal of the vision and accomplishments of the Eaton sisters, Dominika Ferens departs boldly from the dichotomy that has informed most commentary on them: Edith's "authentic" representations of the Chinese North Americans versus Winnifred's "phony" portrayals of Japanese characters and settings.".
"Arguing that Edith as much as Winnifred constructed her persona along with her pen name, Ferens considers the fiction of both Eaton sisters as ethnography. Edith and Winnifred Eaton suggests that both authors wrote through the filter of contemporary ethnographic discourse on the Far East and also wrote for readers hungry for "authentic" insight into the morals, manners, and mentality of an exotic other."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Asian American experience

Uniform Title

Asian American experience.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

ISBN

0252027213 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001004000

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries