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Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): Bibliography

Watanna's books are listed under a variety of names, including the following:

Babcock, Winnifred Eaton.
Eaton, Winnifred.
Reeve, Winifred.
Reeve, Winnifred.
Watanna, Onoto.

An essential resource on Watanna's primary works is Jean Lee Cole's "Newly Recovered Works by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): A Prospectus and Checklist" (Legacy 21.2 [2004]: 229-), which includes materials never collected in any previous bibliography. See also the bibliography on Sui Sin Far.

Ando, Yoshiro. "Onoto Watanna to Iu Sakka." Eigo Seinen, vol. 116, 1970, pp. 596-597.

Birchall, Diana. Onoto Watana: The Story of Winnifred Eaton. U of Illinois P, 2001. Asian American Experience (Asian American Experience).

---. "Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb), edited by Deborah L. Madsen, Gale, 2005, pp. xxiv, 460 pp.

Birkle, Carmen. "Orientalisms in Fin-De-Siecle America." Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, 2006, pp. 323-342, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41158235.

Botshon, Lisa. "Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954)." Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood, 2000, pp. xi, 422 pp.

---. "Revisioning American Orientalism: Winnifred Eaton's Amerasian Space." All (All), edited by Nicoletta Vasta et al., Forum, 2011, p. 367 pp.

Cole, Jean Lee. Winnifred Eaton: Guided by Voices. 2001.

---. The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity. Rutgers UP, 2002.

---. "Coloring Books: The Forms of Turn-of-the-Century American Literature." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 97, no. 4, 2003, pp. 461-493.

---. "Newly Recovered Works by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): A Prospectus and Checklist." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 21, no. 2, 2004, pp. 229-234, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v021/21.2cole.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25679508.

Doyle, James. "Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna: Two Early Chinese-Canadian Authors." Canadian Literature, vol. 140, 1994, pp. 50-58.

Drews, Marie Ilene. Cooking up Trouble: The Cultural Work of Kitchen Kitsch. 2009.

Dupree, Ellen. "China and the Fad for Japan in Onoto Watanna's Chinese-Japanese Cook Book." Popular Culture Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 2007, pp. 85-89.

Engber, Kimberly. "At Home, in Japan: The New World Literature of Isabella Bird and Winnifred Eaton." Dqr: Studies in Literature (Dqrstl), edited by Marguerite Corporaal et al., Rodopi, 2010, p. 278 pp.

Ferens, Dominika. Edith and Winnifred Eaton: The Uses of Ethnography in Turn-of-the-Century Asian-American Literature. 1999.

---. "Winnifred Eaton's 'Japanese' Novels as a Field Experiment." Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, edited by Lisa Botshon et al., Northeastern UP, 2003, pp. xvii, 301 pp.

---. "Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Etnographic Authority." Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies), edited by Xiaojing Zhou and Samina Najmi, U of Washington P, 2005, p. 296 pp.

Grice, Helena. "Face-Ing/De-Face-Ing Racism: Physiognomy as Ethnic Marker in Early Eurasian/Amerasian Women's Texts." Asian American History and Culture (Asian American History and Culture), edited by Josephine Lee et al., Temple UP, 2002, pp. xi, 368 pp.

Hattori, Tomo. "Model Minority Discourse and Asian American Jouis-Sense." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1999, pp. 228-247, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/differences/v011/11.2hattori.html.

Honey, Maureen. "Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna)." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb), edited by Sharon M. Harris et al., Gale, 2000, pp. xxiii, 460 pp.

Honey, Maureen and Jean Lee Cole. John Luther Long: Madame Butterfly and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton): A Japanese Nightingale: Two Orientalists Texts. Rutgers UP, 2002.

Howard, June. "Introduction to 'the Son of Chung Wo,' by Sui Sin Far [Edith Maude Eaton]." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 28, no. 1, 2011, pp. 115-125, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v028/28.1.howard.html

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/legacy.28.1.0115.

Huh, Jinny. The Arresting Eye: Race and the Detection of Deception. 2006.

---. "Detecting Winnifred Eaton." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, pp. 82-105, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/melus/v039/39.1.huh.html.

Ihara, Rachel. "Gentlemen Publishers and Lady Readers: Winnifred Eaton's Negotiations with the Literary Marketplace." Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace, edited by Earl Yarington and Mary De Jong, Cambridge Scholars, 2007, pp. xi, 496 pp.

Kim, Yung Min. Children of Empire: Racial Romance in the Asia-Pacific Writings of Winnifred Eaton and Jack London. 2002.

Lee, Katherine Hyunmi. North American Orientalism: The Career of Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954). 2002.

---. "The Poetics of Liminality and Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton's Me and Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior." Studies in the Literary Imagination, vol. 37, no. 1, 2004, pp. 17-33.

---. "The Poetics of Liminality and Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton's Me and Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior." Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim et al., Temple UP, 2006, pp. viii, 306 pp.

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. "Sibling Hybridities: The Case of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna." Life Writing, vol. 4, no. 1, 2007, pp. 81-99.

Ling, Amy. "Winnifred Eaton: Ethnic Chameleon and Popular Success." MELUS, vol. 11, no. 3, 1984, pp. 5-15.

Moser, Linda Trinh. Me: A Book of Remembrance. Banner; UP of Mississippi, 1997.

Murphy, Gretchen. "How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton's Racial Reconstructions in a Transnational Context." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 79, no. 1, 2007, pp. 29-56.

Najmi, Samina. "White Woman in Asia: Racial Fluidity as Rebellion in Onoto Watanna's the Heart of Hyacinth." Literary Studies East and West (Lstew), edited by Ruth Hsu et al., College of Languages Linguistics and Literature University of Hawaii with East-West Center, 2000, pp. xiv, 295 pp.

Nakachi, Sachi. Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna). 2002.

Oishi, Eve. "'High-Class Fakery': Race, Sex, and Class in the Screenwriting of Winnifred Eaton (1925-1931)." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, vol. 23, no. 1, 2006, pp. 23-36.

Ouyang, Huining. (Re)Presenting Interracial Sexuality: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Su Sin Far and Onoto Watanna. 1999.

---. "Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's a Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Far's 'the Smuggling of Tie Co'." Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber, State U of New York P, 2001, pp. ix, 269 pp.

---. "Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Nume of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance." Doubled Plots: Romance and History, edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden, UP of Mississippi, 2003, p. xxxiii 232 pp.

---. "Ambivalent Passages: Racial and Cultural Crossings in Onoto Watanna's the Heart of Hyacinth." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 34, no. 1, 2009, pp. 211-229, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/melus/v034/34.1.ouyang.html.

Poulsen, Melissa Eriko. "American Orientalism and Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Early Asian American Mixed Race in the American Literary Imagination/American Orientalism & Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Reading Onoto Watanna and Han Suyin's Asian Mixed Race." Asian American Literature: Discourse & Pedagogies, vol. 3, 2012, pp. 5-13, http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/.

Roh-Spaulding, Carol. "Beyond Biraciality: 'Race' as Process in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna." Contributions to Asian American Literary Studies (Caals), edited by Rocio G. Davis and Sami Ludwig, Lit, 2002, p. 265 pp.

Shea, Pat. "Winnifred Eaton and the Politics of Miscegenation in Popular Fiction." MELUS, vol. 22, no. 2, 1997, pp. 19-32.

Sheffer, Jolie A. "'Citizen Sure Thing' or 'Jus' Foreigner'? Half-Caste Citizenship and the Family Romance in Onoto Watanna's Orientalist Fiction." Journal of Asian American Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 2010, pp. 81-105, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/v013/13.1.sheffer.html.

---. The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the U. S., 1880-1930. Rutgers UP, 2013. American Literatures Initiative (American Literatures Initiative).

Shih, David. "The Self and Generic Convention: Winnifred Eaton's Me, a Book of Remembrance." Asian American History and Culture (Asian American History and Culture), edited by Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung, Temple UP, 2005, pp. xii, 308 pp.

Skinazi, Karen E. H. "'As to Her Race, Its Secret Is Loudly Revealed': Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 32, no. 2, 2007, pp. 31-53.

---. Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model. McGill-Queen's UP, 2012.

Spaulding, Carol Vivian. Blue-Eyed Asians: Eurasianism in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna, and Diana Chang. 1997.

Takeda, Katsuhiko. "Onoto Watanna: A Forgotten Writer." Orient/West, vol. 9, no. 1, 1964, pp. 77-81.

Ueki, Teruyo. "Chugokukei Bungaku Ni Miru Jiden No Keifu: Iton Shimai O Chushin Ni." Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation, vol. 143, no. 9, 1997, pp. 575-577, 592.

Woo, Miseong. "Onoto Watanna's a Japanese Nightingale: Shifting Identities of the Pioneer Asian American Woman Writer." Feminist Studies in English Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 2002, pp. 331-353.

---. "The Pioneer Writers of Asian Descent and America's Early Literary Encounter with East Asia: Edith Eaton's Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Winnifred Eaton's a Japanese Nightingale." Situations: Cultural Studies in Asian Context, vol. 7, no. 1, 2013, pp. 63-80.

Yimwilai, Supaporn. Beyond the Binary: Resistance Strategies in the Writing of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna. 2002.

 

 


Comments to D. Campbell.