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Book The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton

Download or read book The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton written by Jean Lee Cole and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Let Me Tell You How I Died

Download or read book Let Me Tell You How I Died written by Sinclair Smith and published by Point. This book was released on 1994 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia begins to believe she is the reincarnation of a slain girl whose diary she discovers in her school locker, and whose murderer is now stalking her. Original.

Book Delia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Lynn
  • Publisher : Mary Lynn
  • Release : 2017-10-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book Delia written by Mary Lynn and published by Mary Lynn. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia Reddick has become quite skilled at keeping people at arm’s length. She learned it from her parents, Savannah, Georgia’s most ruthless attorney, Greyson James Reddick IV and his rebellious wife, Charlotte Ann. A successful editor for one of New York’s most prestigious publishing firms, Delia has managed to put her past behind her. That is, until Oliver calls. “Your mother has passed, Delia. Your father needs you now.” Returning to Savannah, Delia focuses on the task of burying her mother, discovering in the process that neither Charlotte nor Greyson are the parents she thought she knew. Confronted with the truth of her family’s past, it is up to Delia to reveal a secret Charlotte kept hidden to the one person who scares her, and in doing so, learning a bit of truth about herself and what it means to forgive.

Book Edith and Winnifred Eaton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominika Ferens
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780252027215
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Edith and Winnifred Eaton written by Dominika Ferens and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reappraisal of the vision and accomplishments of the Eaton sisters, Dominika Ferens departs boldly from the dichotomy that has informed most commentary on them: Edith's "authentic" representations of the Chinese North Americans versus Winnifred's "phony" portrayals of Japanese characters and settings.".

Book Onoto Watanna

Download or read book Onoto Watanna written by Diana Birchall and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901, Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalism experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would make her famous. Her writing and gift for reinvention would set her apart from other women authors of her time and make her a fascinating early figure in Asian American literature. Diana Birchall, Eaton's granddaughter, tells the Horatio Alger story of the woman who became Onoto Watanna. Born to a British father and a Chinese mother, Winnifred capitalized on her exotic appearance--and protected herself from Americans' scorn of the Chinese--by "becoming" Japanese. Her popular Japanese-themed romance novels thrust her into the glittering world of New York's literati. From there she leapt to Hollywood to become a scriptwriting protégée of Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios. Yet her boldness and talent masked a sometimes-desperate personal life that included a troubled first marriage and the sudden end of her Hollywood career. A compelling saga of the shifting boundary between life and art, Onoto Watanna reveals the conflicting stories, personal tempests, and remarkable accomplishments of a woman whose career was sensational in every sense.

Book Delia s Crossing

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  • Author : V.C. Andrews
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-05-30
  • ISBN : 1501162225
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Delia s Crossing written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers the first book in a daring new trilogy about a young Mexican girl adjusting to her new life in the United States, who finds herself in a Cinderella story--with a nightmarish twist.

Book Sister Mother Husband Dog  Etc

Download or read book Sister Mother Husband Dog Etc written by Delia Ephron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of unforgettable, moving and provocative essays. The emotional lynchpin is the author's stirring, eloquent response to the death of Nora Ephron, her older sister and frequent writing companion. In 'Sister', she deftly captures the love, rivalry, respect and intimacy that made up her relationship with her sister in a way that is at once deeply personal and comfortingly universal. Other essays in the collection run the gamut from a hysterical piece about love and the movies - how romantic comedies completely destroyed her twenties - to the joy of girlfriends and best friendship, the magical madness and miracle of dogs, keen-eyed observations about urban survival, and a serious and affecting memoir of life with her mother - growing up the child of alcoholics. Ephron's sparkling wit and humanity is present on every emotionally resonant page.

Book Dear Delia

Download or read book Dear Delia written by Henry Young and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron Brigade officer Henry F. Young wrote 155 letters home during the Civil War, enabling readers to witness the war, society, and politics of 1860s America as he did. This honest and occasionally humorous autobiography reveals a rare portrait of a junior officer from America's western heartland.

Book Delia s Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olga Berrocal Essex
  • Publisher : Arte Publico Press
  • Release : 1998-06-30
  • ISBN : 9781611921144
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Delia s Way written by Olga Berrocal Essex and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒNo one looked at her. Papa, Mama, and Maria Elena were busy with their food, but an invisible cord linked them, forming a triangle that left Delia out.Ó In this endearing novel, Olga Berrocal Essex tells the story of young Delia PinedaÕs need to uncover a family secret. She tries to piece together whispered hints from overheard family conversations, like pieces in a puzzle, in an attempt to find Òsome meaning in her own life.Ó Growing up in Panama City in the 1950s, Delia is aware that the strain between her and her domineering older sister, Maria Elena, has something to do with her motherÕs past. As her sixteenth birthday approaches, she begins to understand that her motherÕs secret is inextricably woven with her sisterÕs feelings of unworthiness. DeliaÕs growth is marked by a blossoming compassion for her tormented family and a firm conviction to lead a different life, free from the unspeakable bonds of deception that keep the family together.

Book Where the Crawdads Sing

Download or read book Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Book You Matter

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  • Author : Delia Smith
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-03-03
  • ISBN : 1912914344
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book You Matter written by Delia Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know science is awesome, as are its achievements. Yet so far scientists have managed to sidestep the most awesome reality of all, the true nature of human life, the source of their own genius. How is it that in the overwhelming immensity of the cosmos, on microscopic earth, human beings exist? We have not yet looked reality in the face and perceived the nobility and grandeur of who we are, each of us having a responsibility in the universe and being part of a vast and continuing process, which can only emerge from the shadows and darkest corners of our thought when we step aside away from all the noise. 'You Matter' encourages people to think more deeply about the phenomenon of existence, what it means to be a unique human person, and how in unity with one another we can build a future in these uncertain times.

Book Life

Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life

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  • Author : John Ames Mitchell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book Life written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

Download or read book The Outlook written by Lyman Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chastened Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Crooke
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2014-10-23
  • ISBN : 1491749873
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Chastened Heart written by Robert Crooke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Professor Alice Prescott writes a best-selling novel based on her passionate, once-troubled marriage to journalist Tom Winslow, the couples quiet Connecticut life is shaken by more than bad memories. Th e past itself returns, as if beckoned by Alices book. Now, the Winslows learn what their unyielding love has cost them--and others. Th e Chastened Heart is a novel of middle class American and European manners, satirical yet compassionate, realistic yet committed to the spiritual and ethical concerns of the very best fi ction. Robert Crookes deeply emotional narrative urges a reader to follow the Winslows into a past that is both personal and universal, and to embrace with them the mysteries that their marriage represents.

Book Past Or Portal

Download or read book Past Or Portal written by Eleanor Mitchell and published by Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of ubiquitous access to information, library special collections and archives have received renewed attention through digitization projects designed to share collections with the world at large. Yet these materials also offer opportunities for student learning through direct engagement with rare or unique items. While special collections and archives have largely been used by advanced researchers and scholars, an increasing number of undergraduate courses are taking advantage of these materials as guides in the instructional process.

Book Cattle

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  • Author : Onoto Watanna
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-11-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Cattle written by Onoto Watanna and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cattle" by Onoto Watanna. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.