Tag: Karen E. H. Skinazi

  • Detecting Winnifred Eaton MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Published online: 2014-01-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlt078 Jinny Huh, Assistant Professor of English University of Vermont In her recent introduction to Winnifred Eaton’s Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model (1916), Karen E. H. Skinazi explores the relationship between racial ambiguity—that of both the anonymous author and…

  • Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model McGill-Queen’s University Press 2012-03-19 410 pages 21 b&w photos 6 x 9 Paper (077353962X) 9780773539624 Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Introduction by: Karen E. H. Skinazi, Lecturer Princeton Writing Program Princeton University The daughter of an English merchant father and Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was a wildly popular fiction…

  • “As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity MELUS Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2007) pages 31-53 Karen E. H. Skinazi, Instructor of English University of Alberta At the tum of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym “Onoto Watanna,”…