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Sui Sin Far: Selected Secondary Bibliography

Arab, Teresa Fernandez. Cultural Identity Revisited: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Work of Cultural Preservation (Maria Cristina Mena, Humishuma, Sui Sin Far and the Daughters of Hawai'i. 2008. Print

Ammons, Elizabeth, and Annette White Parks. Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.

Beauregard, Guy. "Reclaiming Sui Sin Far." Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Eds. Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim and Yuko Matsukawa. Asian American History and Culture: Temple UP, Philadelphia, PA, 2002.

Birchall, Diana. "Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far)." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb). Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2005.

Birkle, Carmen. "Orientalisms in Fin-De-Siecle America." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.3 (2006): 323-42. Print.

Bloom, Harold. Asian American Women Writers. Women Writers of English and Their Works. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.

---. American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960. Volume Three. Women Writers of English and Their Works. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998.

Brown, Julie. Ethnicity and the American Short Story. New York: Garland Pub., 1997.

Brown, Linda Joyce. "Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American: Racial Formation and the Literature of Immigration During the Late Progressive Era." 2001.

Brown, Wesley, and Amy Ling. Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. New York: Persea Books, 1991. Rev. Ed, 2002.

But, Juanita C. "The Other Race: Settler, Exile, Transient and Sojourner in the Literary Diaspora." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.8 (2000): 2908.

Caldwell, Joseph. The Antioch Review. Volume 56, Number 4. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch University, 1998.

Callahan, Cynthia. Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Print.

Campbell, Sandra, and Lorraine McMullen. New Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, 1900-1920. Canadian Short Story Library ; No. 14. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1991.

Chan, Jeffery Paul. The Big Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature. New York, N.Y.: Meridan, 1991.

Chin, Jim Cheung. Realism and the Hierarchy of Racial Inclusion: Representations of African Americans and Chinese Americans in Post-Civil War Literature and Culture. 2006. Print.

Chapman, Mary. "A 'Revolution in Ink': Sui Sin Far and Chinese Reform Discourse." American Quarterly 60.4 (2008): 975-1001. Print.

Cho, Yu-Fang. "Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late-Nineteenth-Century California Magazines." American Quarterly 61.1 (2009): 113-36. Print.

Cho, Yu-Fang. "'Yellow Slavery,' Narratives of Rescue, and Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton's 'Lin John' (1899)." Journal of Asian American Studies 12.1 (2009): 35-63. Print.

Chung, June Hee. "Asian Object Lessons: Orientalist Decoration in Realist Aesthetics from William Dean Howells to Sui Sin Far." Studies in American Fiction 36.1 (2008): 27-50.

Chiu, Monica Elizabeth. "Illness and Self-Representation in Asian American Literature by Women." 1996.

Chu, Patricia P. Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Chung, June Hee. "Asian Object Lessons: Orientalist Decoration in Realist Aesthetics from William Dean Howells to Sui Sin Far." Studies in American Fiction 36.1 (2008): 27-50. Print.

Curton, Carman C. "Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)." American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Laurie Champion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. 333-37.

Cutter, Martha J. "Sex, Love, Revenge, and Murder in 'Away Down in Jamaica': A Lost Short Story by Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 21.1 (2004): 85-89.

---.. "Sui Sin Far's Letters to Charles Lummis: Contextualizing Publication Practices for the Asian American Subject at the Turn of the Century." American Literary Realism 38.3 (2006): 259-75. Print.

---.. "Smuggling across the Borders of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: 'Mrs. Spring Fragrance.'" Mixed Race Literature. Ed. Jonathan Brennan. Stanford, CA: Stanford U P, 2002. 137-64.

Davis, Rocío G., and Sämi Ludwig. Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry and Performance. Contributions to Asian American Literary Studies ; V. 1. Münster: Lit, 2002.

Degenhardt, Jane Hwang. "Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far's Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 54.4 (2008): 654-88. Print.

Diana, Vanessa Holford. "Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far." MELUS 26.2 (2001): 159-86.

Diana, Vanessa Holford. "Zitkala-Sa and Sui Sin Far's Sketch Collections: Communal Characterization as Resistance Writing Tool." Scribbling Women & the Short Story Form: Approaches by American & British Women Writers. Ed. Ellen Burton Harrington. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2008.

Doyle, James. "Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna: Two Early Chinese-Canadian Authors." Canadian Literature 140 (1994): 50-58.

Dupree, Ellen. "Sui Sin Far's Argument for Biculturalism in Mrs. Spring Fragrance." Asian American Studies: Identity, Images, Issues Past and Present. Ed. Esther Mikyung Ghymn. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2000. 77-100.

Eaton, Allen Hendershott. Immigrant Gifts to American Life: Some Experiments in Appreciation of the Contributions of Our Foreign-Born Citizens to American Culture. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932.

Eng, David L., and Alice Y. Hom. Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Ferens, Dominika. Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances. The Asian American Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Field, Andrew D. "Selling Souls in Sin City: Shanghai Singing and Dancing Hostesses in Print, Film and Politics, 1920-49." Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Ed. Yingjin Zhang. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999. 99-127.

Goudie, Sean X. "Toward a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far." American Literature: 80.2 (2008): 293-322.

Grasso, Linda M. "Inventive Desperation: Anger, Violence, and Belonging in Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Sui Sin Far's Murderous Mother Stories." American Literary Realism 38.1 (2005): 18-31.

Gruber, Laura Katherine. Unstable Geographies: Context, Representation, and Ideology in American Western Writing, 1885-1927. 2006. Print.

Harris, Sharon M. American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 221. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.

Hong, Maria. Growing up Asian American. New York: Avon Books, 1993.

Howard, June. "Sui Sin Far's American Words." Comparative American Studies 6.2 (June 2008): 144–160.

Horowitz, Michael M. Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean; an Anthropological Reader. Garden City, N.Y.,: Published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, 1971.

Hsu, Hsuan L. Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Csalc). Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.

Hsu, Stephanie. Transgender Transnationalism: Representations of Immigrant Genders and Sexualities in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Literature. 2010. Print.

Huang, Guiyou. Asian American Short Story Writers: An a-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Jirousek, Lori. "Spectacle Ethnography and Immigrant Resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska." MELUS 27.1 (2002): 25-54.

Lape, Noreen Groover. West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Lee, Josephine D., Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa. Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Asian American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Lee, Karen An-Hwei. "Prosthetic Texts/Phatom Originals: Translations of Cultural Consciousness in Theresa Cha, Chuang Hua, Sui Sin Far, Kazuo Ishituro, and Virginia Woolf." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.7 (2002): 2417.

Leighton, Joy M. "'a Chinese Ishmael': Sui Sin Far, Writing, and Exile." MELUS 26.3 (2001): 3-29.

Li, Wenxin. "Sui Sin Far and the Chinese American Canon: Toward a Post- Gender-Wars Discourse." MELUS 29.3-4 (2004): 121-31.

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. "Sibling Hybridities: The Case of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna." Life Writing 4.1 (2007): 81-99.

Ling, Amy. "Edith Eaton: Pioneer Chinamerican Writer and Feminist." American Literary Realism 16.2 (1983): 287-.

Ling, Amy, and Annette White-Parks. Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995..

Martin, Quentin E. "Sui Sin Far's Railroad Baron: A Chinese of the Future." American Literary Realism 29.1 (1996): 54-61.

McCann, Sean. "Connecting Links: The Anti-Progressivism of Sui Sin Far." Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 12.1 (1999): 73-88.

Morgan, Tabitha Adams. "Ghetto Regionalism: Place, Identity, and Assimilation in the Fiction of Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, and Zitkala-Sa." 2002.

Moser, Linda Trinh. "Chinese Prostitutes, Japanese Geishas and Working Women: Images of Race, Class and Gender in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna." 1997.

Ng, Maria N. "Chop Suey Writing: Sui Sin Far, Wayson Choy, and Judy Fong Bates." Essays on Canadian writing.65 (1998): 171-86.

Ouyang, Huining. "Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's a Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Far's 'the Smuggling of Tie Co'." Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Laura Gruber and Sibylle Gray-Rosendale. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2001. 203-17.

Pan, Arnold. "Cosmopolitics from Below: Autobiography and Collective Identity in Sui Sin Far's 'Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian'." Querying the Genealogy: Comparative and Transnational Studies in Chinese American Literature/Wen Pu Xi: Zhong Mei Wen Hua Shi Ye Xia De Mei Hua Wen Xue Yan Jiu. Ed. Jennie Wang. Shanghai, China: Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, 2006. 557 pp.

Pan, Arnold. "Transnationalism at the Impasse of Race: Sui Sin Far and U.S. Imperialism." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 66.1 (2010): 87-114. Print.

Patterson, Martha H. Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2005.

Peterson, Rachel, and Joel Wendland. "Performing Ethnography and Identity in Sui Sin Far's Short Fiction." Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon. Eds. Tunc, Tanfer Emin and Elisabetta Marino. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Print.

Pierpont, Sherri Bell. "Wandering between Worlds: The Effects of Assimilation on Immigrant and Native American Children in the Works of Sui Sin Far, Anzia Yezierska, and Zitkala-Sa." 1998.

Pryse, Marjorie. "Linguistic Regionalism and the Emergence of Chinese American Literature in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance." Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of Literary and Cultural Studies 38.1 (2007): 29-69. (See citation below for a more readily available version.)

Pryse, Marjorie. "Linguistic Regionalism and the Emergence of Chinese American Literature in Sui Sin Far's 'Mrs. Spring Fragrance'." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 27.1 (2010): 83-108. Print.

Rich, Charlotte J. Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2009. Print.

Roh-Spaulding, Carol. "'Wavering' Images: Mixed-Race Identity in the Stories of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far." Ethnicity and the American Short Story. Ed. William E. Cain and Julia Brown. New York, NY: Garland, 1997. 155-76.

Solberg, S. E. "Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton: The First Chinese-American Fictionist." MELUS 8.1 (1981): 27-39.

Song, Min. "Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far." Legacy 20.1-2 (2003): 134-52.

Spaulding, Carol Vivian. "Blue-Eyed Asians: Eurasianism in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna, and Diana Chang." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 57.7 (1997): 3024-25.

Sui Sin Far. Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Chicago,: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912.

Sui Sin Far, and E. Catherine Falvey. Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Masterworks of Literature Series. Albany, N.Y.: NCUP Inc., 1994.

Sui Sin Far, Amy Ling, and Annette White Parks. Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. Asian American Experience. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Staples, Joe. "'Discovering' New Talent: Charles F. Lummis's Conflicted Mentorship of Sui Sin Far, Sharlot Hall, and Mary Austin." Western American Literature 40.2 (2005): 175-.

Teng, Jinhua Emma. "Miscegenation and the Critique of Patriarchy in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction." Race, Gender and Class 4.3 (1997): 68-87.

Tonkovich, Nicole. "Genealogy, Genre, Gender: Sui Sin Far's 'Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian'." Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context. Ed. Timothy B. Powell. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1999. 236-60.

Trudeau, Lawrence J. Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.

Vogel, Todd. Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultual Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2004.

White Parks, Annette.. Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

---. "A Reversal of American Concepts of 'Other-Ness' in the Fiction of Sui Sin Far." Melus 20.1 (1995): 17-34.

---. "Intersections of Gender and Cultural Difference as Both Impediment and Inspiration to Sui Sin Far, a Canadian/American Writer." Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women's Writing. Ed. Coomi S. -- Vevaina, Barbara Godard. Creative New Literatures Series. New Delhi: Creative, 1996. 197-218.

Winter, Molly Crumpton. American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2007.

Wong, Shawn. Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology. The Harpercollins Literary Mosaic Series. New York: HarperCollins College Pub., 1996.

Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, and Min Song. Asian American Studies: A Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Yimwilai, Supaporn. "Beyond the Binary: Resistance Strategies in the Writing of Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 63.1 (2002): 192.

Yin, Xiao-huang. Chinese American Literature since the 1850s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Yin, Xiao-Huang. "Between the East and West: Sui Sin Far-the First Chinese-American Woman Writer." Arizona Quarterly 47.4 (1991): 49-84.

Yoshihara. Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2002.

Yu, Ning. "Fanny Fern and Sui Sin Far: The Beginning of an Asian American Voice." Women and Language 19.2 (1996): 44-47.

Comments to D. Campbell.