"As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity

摘要: At the turn of twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used pseudonym "Onoto Watanna," was writing romances in New York, experimenting with popular genre Japonisme-the craze for all things Japanese. As Eaton advanced her career, however, she became disgruntled writing, observable both by virtue shift focus and reading words alter ego, Nora, autobiographical novel, Me: A Book Remembrance (1915). Nora frowns on own success, "founded upon cheap device," declares, "Oh, I had sold my birthright mess potage!" (153-54). Me reveals, new project, one that true birthright. Without specifically identifying heritage, or returning to fabricated Japanese identity, nonetheless created clearly non-white Canadian characters its spin-off, Marion: The Story an Artist's Model (1916), auto/biographical tales American immigration adventure. In doing so, extended revised rhetoric-and literature-that focused white, Anglo-Saxon bond "brotherhood" between Canadians Americans. not political novelist, face neither head taxes nor Exclusion Acts when they cross Canadian-American border. Yet made important innovation immigrant literature revealing