'We Wear the Mask‘: Sui Sin Far as One Example of Trickster Authorship
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'We Wear the Mask‘: Sui Sin Far as One Example of Trickster Authorship
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| Abstract |
The British-born, Montreal-raised Edith Maud Eaton (1865-1914), who wrote under the pen name Sui Sin Far, was the first published author of Asian origin in North America. She was the daughter of Englishman Edward Eaton, a merchant who met her Chinese mother while on a business trip to Shanghai, and Grace "Lotus Blossom" Trefusis, the adopted daughter of English missionaries. Sui Sin Far began her writing career while working as a typesetter at the Montreal Daily Star, although she gained literary recognition only after moving to the United States, where she stayed for sixteen years. Her writings told what life was like for a Chinese woman in white North America. She is buried in Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery. Sui Sin Far's sister, the Montreal-born Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was also a novelist who wrote under the supposedly-Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, despite the fact she was of Euro-Chinese ancestry.
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Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective
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Hanover, NH
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University Press of New England
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1994
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1-20
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en
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0-87451-680-3
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White-Parks, Annette. “’We Wear the Mask‘: Sui Sin Far as One Example of Trickster Authorship.” In Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective, edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-Parks, 1–20. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
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