{"id":2275,"date":"2012-09-05T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=2275"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:40:00","slug":"sui-sin-far-edith-maude-eaton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sui-sin-far-edith-maude-eaton\/","title":{"rendered":"Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sui Sin Far was the pen name of Edith Maude Eaton, oldest sister of Winnifred Eaton.\u00a0 Together they made history as the first Asian-American women writers.\u00a0 Maude was born in England in 1865 to a British father and Chinese mother.\u00a0 The family moved to Hudson, New York and then to Montreal, Quebec, when Maude was still a child.\u00a0 Maude Eaton died in Montreal in 1914.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/h3>\n

Edited by Hsuan L. Hsu.
\nPeterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2011.
\nPS8487.U44 M77 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

The novel Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em> was first published: Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

Among the first works of fiction in English by a North American writer of Asian descent, the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em> present a complex and sympathetic picture of life in American Chinese communities in the early twentieth century. Far’s seemingly simple stories of family life reveal the tensions created by cultural assimilation. Rather than embracing any particular identity, the stories show a cosmopolitan sensibility that embraces “the motley throng of all nationalities” in the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown.<\/p>\n

Appendices include materials on Chinese exclusion, missionaries and assimilation, and contemporary representations of Chinatown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings<\/h3>\n

Edited by Amy Ling and Annette White-Parks.
\nUrbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
\nPS8487 .U5 M77 1995<\/a><\/p>\n

The novel Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em> was first published: Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912.<\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

This volume reprints stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em>, along with other previously uncollected stories and journalistic essays by the first published Asian North American fiction writer.<\/p>\n

During an era of extreme Sinophobia, the Eurasian Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) courageously chose to write of the Chinese in North America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving–in short, as human. Her stories sympathetically portray a group caught between worlds, inheritors of traditional Chinese values who find themselves thrust into boomingly mercantile and extremely race-conscious cities, such as San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Montreal, at the turn of the last century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology (Fiction and Prose)<\/h3>\n

Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton<\/h3>\n

Edited by Mary Chapman.
\nMontreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.
\nPS8487 .U44 A6 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

Becoming Sui Sin Far<\/em> collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton\u2019s early works, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in turn-of-the-century periodicals. These works of fiction and journalism, in diverse styles and from a variety of perspectives, document Eaton\u2019s early career as a short story writer, \u201cstunt-girl\u201d journalist, ethnographer, political commentator, and travel writer. Showcasing her playful humour, savage wit, and deep sympathy, the texts included in this volume assert a significant place for Eaton in North American literary history. Mary Chapman\u2019s introduction provides an insightful and readable overview of Eaton\u2019s transnational career. The volume also includes an expanded bibliography that lists over two hundred and sixty works attributed to Eaton, a detailed biographical timeline, and a newly discovered interview with Eaton from the year in which she first adopted the orientalist pseudonym for which she is best known..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Arab, Teresa Fernandez.\u00a0 “Cultural Identity Revisited: Early Twentieth-century Women’s Work of Cultural Preservation\u00a0(Maria Cristina Mena, Humishuma, Sui Sin Far and The Daughters of Hawai’i).”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 2007.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Beauregard, Guy.\u00a0 “Reclaiming Sui Sin Far.”\u00a0 In Re\/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History<\/em>, eds. Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa.\u00a0 Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
\nE184 .A75 R43 2002<\/p>\n

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But, Juanita.\u00a0 “The Other Race: Settler, Exile, Transient and Sojourner in the Literary Diaspora.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Chapman, Mary. “Edith Eaton\/Sui Sin Far’s Revolutions in Ink: Print Cultural Alternatives to U.S. Suffrage Discourse.” Chap. in her: Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
\nZ473 .C472014<\/p>\n

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Chiu, Monica Elizabeth.\u00a0 “Illness and Self-representation in Asian-American Literature by Women.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1996.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Ferens, Dominika.\u00a0 Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances<\/em>.\u00a0 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
\nPS8487 .U5 Z68 2002<\/p>\n

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Gruber, Laura Katherine.\u00a0 “Unstable Geographies: Context, Representation and Ideology in American Western Writing, 1885-1927.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., Washington State University, 2005.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Heidenreich, Rosmarin. \u201cHybrid Identities: The Eaton Sisters\u201d In her Literary Imposters: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century<\/em>. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, p. 202-255.
\nPS8185 .A88 H45 2018<\/p>\n

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Hodges, Anita Polunga. \u201cCollective Visions of Women: Representations of Gender and Race in the Writings of Women of Color: 1900-1940.\u201d Ph.D. diss., University of Hawai\u2019i, 1998.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Leighton, Joy Marc.\u00a0 “Ishmael in the Promised Land: Exile and Ethics in Nineteenth-century America.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2000.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Li, Zhen.\u00a0 “Unsettling Women: Contemporary Diasporic Chinese Women’s Writing.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2012.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Ouyang, Huining.\u00a0 “(Re)presenting Interracial Sexuality: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., Purdue University, 1998.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Shih, David.\u00a0 “Representation and Exceptionalism in the Asian American Autobiography ”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1999.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Spaulding, Carol Vivian. \u201cBlue-eyed Asians: Eurasianism in the work of Edith Eaton\/Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton\/Onoto Watanna, and Diana Chan.\u201d Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1996.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Teng, Emma Jinhua. “The Easton Sisters and the Figure of the Eurasian” In The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature<\/em>, eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Hyoung Song. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 88-103.
\nPS153 .A84 C36 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Tirado-Gilligan, Heather.\u00a0 “The Form of Fulfillment: Race, Genre and Imperialism in American Periodical Culture, 1880-1910.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., The State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick, 2004.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Vogel, Todd William.\u00a0 “Staging Race and Sabotaging Whiteness: Marginalized Writers Redirect the Mainstream.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., The University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Wang, Jianhui.\u00a0 “Sexual Politics in the Works of Chinese American Women Writers: Sui Sin Far, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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White-Parks, Annette.\u00a0 Sui Sin Far \/ Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography<\/em>.\u00a0 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
\nFC3067.2 .W45 1995<\/p>\n

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Yang, Caroline Hyo Jung.\u00a0 “Reconstruction’s Labor: The Asian Worker in Narratives of United States Culture and History, 1890-1930.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 2007.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n

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Yimwilai, Supaporn.\u00a0 “Beyond the Binary: Resistance Strategies in the Writings of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna.”\u00a0 Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, 2002.
\nAvailable from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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