{"id":2629,"date":"2009-10-29T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2011-06-25T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:08:31","slug":"mixed-race-identity-politics-in-nella-larsen-and-winnifred-eaton-onoto-watanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/etd.ohiolink.edu\/send-pdf.cgi\/Nakachi%20Sachi.pdf?acc_num=ohiou1005675005\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ohio University<br \/>\nEnglish (Arts and Sciences) Department<br \/>\nNovember 2001<br \/>\n217 pages<br \/>\nAdvisor: David Dean McWilliams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sachi Nakachi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The dissertation examines how two women authors of mixed-race, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winnifred_Eaton\" target=\"_blank\">Winnifred Eaton<\/a> (Onoto Watanna), resisted American identity politics in their works.\u00a0 The ideological complexities of mixed-race identity, which is \u201cin-between\u201d races, are the focus of my argument. To discuss what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Butler\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Butler<\/a> calls \u201cthe performativity of identity\u201d in the interracial context, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passing_(racial_identity)\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>,\u201d \u201cmasquerading\u201d and \u201cmimicking\u201d are used as key strategies. I examine whether the space of hybridity, in which the incompatible notions of difference and sameness exist together, opens up the horizon of transformation of significations . In Chapter One, I discuss how Larsen used her \u201cmulatto\u201d heroines to criticize the essentialist notion of identity. I probe how crossing boundaries (passing, geographical crossing and transgressing sexual norms) functions in her novels. In Chapter Two, I examine the works of Winnifred Eaton, who passed as Japanese in her authorship. By crossing the \u201cauthentic\u201d ethnic boundaries and placing herself in a fictional identity, Eaton challenged racism and sexism. The dynamics of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orientalism\" target=\"_blank\">Orientalism<\/a>, race and gender in Eaton\u2019s works are examined in this chapter. Postmodern feminist theories and postcolonial theories are used in tandem to support my argument, which tries to discuss how the system of racial oppression operates in multi-racial\/multi-ethnic women\u2019s literature.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire dissertation <a href=\"http:\/\/etd.ohiolink.edu\/send-pdf.cgi\/Nakachi%20Sachi.pdf?acc_num=ohiou1005675005\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,838,1196,8,6462,394,25],"tags":[1384,87,840,841,839],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-judith-butler","tag-nella-larsen","tag-onoto-watanna","tag-sachi-nakachi","tag-winnifred-eaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}