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Article: Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
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- January 1, 2004
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Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton. By Diana Birchall. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 252 pp. $29.95.
The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity. By Jean Lee Cole. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 204 pp. $60.00/$24.00 paper.
In the past decade Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna (1875-1954) has increasingly drawn scholarly attention, both as one of the first and most prolific American authors of Asian descent and as a flamboyant woman who performed rare feats of will and imagination. Raised in a working-class district of Montreal, disadvantaged by her Chinese mother's origin and her ...