{"id":22158,"date":"2012-04-04T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22158"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:34:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:34:31","slug":"marion-the-story-of-an-artists-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22158","title":{"rendered":"Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

McGill-Queen’s University Press<\/a>
\n2012-03-19
\n410 pages
\n21 b&w photos
\n6 x 9
\nPaper (077353962X) 9780773539624<\/p>\n

Winnifred Eaton<\/a><\/strong> (1875-1954)<\/p>\n

Introduction by:<\/p>\n

Karen E. H. Skinazi<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer
\nPrinceton Writing Program
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/p>\n

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The daughter of an English merchant father and Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was a wildly popular fiction writer in her time. Born in Montreal, Eaton lived in Jamaica and several places in the United States before settling in Alberta. Her books, many of them published under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, encompass the experiences of marginalized women in Canada, Jamaica, the United States, and a romantic, imagined Japan. Marion: The Story of an Artist’s Model<\/em> is Eaton’s only book that explicitly deals with being “foreign” in Canada.<\/p>\n

The novel follows the life of “half-foreign” Marion Ascough\u2014a character based on Eaton’s own sister\u2014while never identifying her “foreignness.” Escaping the unrelenting racial discrimination her family endures in Quebec, Marion follows her dream of being an artist by moving to New York, where she becomes “Canadian” instead of ethnic – a more palatable foreignness. Having successfully stripped herself of her ethnicity, Marion continues to experience discrimination and objectification as a woman, failing as an artist and becoming an artist’s model. Karen Skinazi’s introduction to Eaton’s fascinating narrative draws attention to the fact that although the novel uses many of the conventions of the “race secret” story, this time the secret is never revealed.<\/p>\n

This new edition of Marion: The Story of An Artist’s Model<\/em> brings back into print a compelling and sophisticated treasure of Asian Canadian\/American fiction that offers a rare perspective on ethnicity, gender, and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,19,8,15,6462,25],"tags":[5933,5934,1201,840,839],"class_list":["post-22158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-women","tag-karen-e-h-skinazi","tag-karen-skinazi","tag-mcgill-queens-university-press","tag-onoto-watanna","tag-winnifred-eaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22158","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=22158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}