Please join us on Thursday, February 21st in the Homer babbidge Library Instruction room 1102 at 6:30 p.m. as we welcome University of British Columbia's Mary Chapman, who will be giving a talk entitled, "Going Back to Dixie: Black Asian Analogy in the Life and Work of Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far)."
Chapman’s current research involves unearthing the uncollected fiction and journalism of Asian-North American author Edith Eaton (“Sui Sin Far”) and positioning her within the popular transnational print culture of the 1910s. Becoming “Sui Sin Far”: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016) assembles 70 uncollected texts written during her writerly apprenticeship in Montreal and Jamaica, before she had taken up the pseudonym “Sui Sin Far” and moved to the U.S.. Another volume, which collects her uncollected mature work, and a monograph that looks at Eaton’s use of the “Afro-Asian analogy” are works-in-progress.
This event is being put on by the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.
For more information, contact: Jason Chang at jason.o.chang@uconn.edu