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Tag: Edith Eaton
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Newly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.
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Edith Eaton’s Expanding Oeuvre American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism Volume 27, Number 1, 2017 pages 6-10 Mary Chapman, Professor of English University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Since the early 1980s, when S. E. Solberg published a short checklist of twenty-two works of fiction and journalism by Chinese American author…
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Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in “The Alaska Widow” by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2013) pages 155-163 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls002 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia When her work was recovered in the 1980s, Edith Eaton…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 New York University Press October 2011 228 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780814752555 Paper ISBN: 9780814752562 Julia H. Lee, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Texas, Austin 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies Why do black characters…
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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.
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Finding Edith Eaton Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 29, Number 2, 2012 pages 263-269 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2012.0017 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Edith Maude Eaton has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic…
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Teaching Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far: Multiple Approaches Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 70-78 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies San Francisco State University This essay compares pedagogical approaches to teaching the literature of Edith Eaton in two distinct contexts: a course on Asian American Literature and a…
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This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.
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Multiple choice: Literary racial formations of mixed race Americans of Asian descent Rice University May 2001 194 pages Shannon T. Leonard Rice University A thesis submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation reassesses key paradigms of Asian American literary studies in the interest of critically accounting for…