James Doyle (essay date spring 1994)
SOURCE: Doyle, James. “Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna: Two Early Chinese-Canadian Authors.” Canadian Literature, no. 140 (spring 1994): 50-8.
[In the following essay, Doyle discusses the influence of a Canadian background on the fiction of Far and her sister Winnifred Eaton, asserting that, while Winnifred wrote predictable formulas of sentimental fiction, Far's fictions explore important issues of ethnic and gender conflict.]
Edith Eaton (1865-1914) and Winnifred Eaton Reeve (1875-1954), the daughters of a...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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