{"id":13140,"date":"2011-04-07T03:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T03:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2013-02-17T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:33:38","slug":"a-half-caste-and-other-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13140","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Half Caste\u201d and Other Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA Half Caste\u201d and Other Writings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press
\n<\/a>2003
\n208 pages
\n6 x 9 in.
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07094-5<\/p>\n

Onoto Watanna<\/a><\/strong> (1875-1954)<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Linda Trinh Moser<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English
\nMissouri State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Rooney<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Previously uncollected short stories and essays by the first fiction writer of Chinese ancestry to be published in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did it mean to be a \u2018half caste<\/a>\u2019 in early twentieth-century North America? Winnifred Eaton lived that experience and, as Onoto Watanna, she wrote about it. This collection of her short works\u2014some newly discovered, others long awaited by scholars–ranges from breathless magazine romance to story melodrama and provides a riveting introduction to a unique literary personality.\u201d\u2014Diana Birchall, author of Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton Onoto Watanna (1875-1954)<\/em> was born Winnifred Eaton, the daughter of a British father and a Chinese mother. The first novelist of Chinese descent to be published in the United States, she \u201cbecame\u201d Japanese to escape Americans\u2019 scorn of the Chinese and to capitalize on their fascination with things Japanese. The earliest essay here, \u201cA Half Caste,\u201d appeared in 1898, a year before Miss Num\u00e9: A Japanese-American Romance<\/em>, the first of her best-selling novels. The last story, \u201cElspeth,\u201d appeared in 1923. Of Watanna\u2019s numerous shorter works, this volume includes nineteen\u2014thirteen stories and six essays\u2014intended to show the scope and versatility of her writing. While some of Watanna\u2019s fictional characters will remind today\u2019s readers of the delicate but tragic Madame Butterfly, others foreshadow such types as the trickster in Maxine Hong Kingston\u2019s Tripmaster Monkey<\/em> (a novel in which Onoto Watanna makes a cameo appearance). Watanna\u2019s characters are always capable, clever, and inventive\u2014molded in the author\u2019s own image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA Half Caste\u201d and Other Writings University of Illinois Press 2003 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07094-5 Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) Edited by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University Elizabeth Rooney Previously uncollected short stories and essays by the first fiction writer of Chinese ancestry to be published in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,11,8,15,25],"tags":[5932,5931,5930,5929,840,1111,839],"class_list":["post-13140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-women","tag-elizabeth-rooney","tag-linda-moser","tag-linda-t-moser","tag-linda-trinh-moser","tag-onoto-watanna","tag-university-of-illinois-press","tag-winnifred-eaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}