A "Half Caste" and Other Writings

by: Onoto Watanna

Edited by Linda Trinh Moser - Elizabeth Rooney

A "Half Caste" and Other Writings
Author: Onoto Watanna

Edited by Linda Trinh Moser, Elizabeth Rooney

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Series: The Asian American Experience

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 17 December 2002

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ISBN: 0252070941 ISBN 13: 9780252070945

A "Half Caste" and Other Writings by Onoto Watanna

What did it mean to be a 'half caste' in early twentieth-century North America? This collection of short works ranges from magazine romance to story melodrama and provides an introduction to a unique literary personality - Onoto Watanna. It includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the versatility of her writing. Top page

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'What did it mean to be a 'half caste' 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 - some 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.' - Diana Birchall, author of "Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton". Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) 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 'became' Japanese to escape Americans' scorn of the Chinese and to capitalize on their fascination with things Japanese. The earliest essay here, "A Half Caste," appeared in 1898, a year before "Miss Num: A Japanese-American Romance", the first of her best-selling novels. The last story, "Elspeth," appeared in 1923. Of Watanna's numerous shorter works, this volume includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the scope and versatility of her writing. While some of Watanna's fictional characters will remind today's readers of the delicate but tragic Madame Butterfly, others foreshadow such types as the trickster in Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" (a novel in which Onoto Watanna makes a cameo appearance). Watanna's characters are always capable, clever, and inventive - molded in the author's own image. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: University of Illinois Press

City: Baltimore

Pages: 208

More info: height 229 mm width 152 mm weight 315 gr thickness 19 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 813.52 Library of Congress Subject: PR9199.3.W Asian Americans - Fiction.

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