The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton

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  • The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton Book Detail

  • Author : Jean Lee Cole
  • Release Date : 2002
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 228
  • ISBN 13 : 9780813530871
  • File Size : 15,15 MB
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The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton by Jean Lee Cole PDF Summary

Book Description: Winnifred Eaton, better known under her Japanese pseudonym, Onoto Watanna, was of English and Chinese heritage, but born and raised in Canada. She published over a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, magazine articles, and screenplays during the first half of the twentieth century. Her romances featuring Japanese and Eurasian heroines sold widely. However, by the time of her death in 1954, most of her books were out of print. Winnifred (unlike her sister, the better-known writer Edith Eaton) has been a troubling figure for Asian Americanists. She attempted to disguise her ethnic heritage, writing under a Japanese pen name, and in legal documents, she usually claimed a white racial identity. Scholars have noted her use of Orientalist stereotypes in her novels, and even though she depicted a broad range of non-Asian characters - such as Irish maids and cowboys - her pottrayals often relied on the accepted stereotypes of the day. Rather than dismiss her characterizations as evasions of the topics that readers today wish she had explored, Jean Lee Cole asks why Winnifred Eaton may have chosen the subjects she did. Cole shows that the many voices Eaton adopted reveal her deep

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