« The Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian » : Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far, double héritage ou double dépossession?
Widely recognized today as the foremother of Chinese American letters, Sui Sin Far testifies in her writings to the irreducible tensions arising from her own bi-racial legacy, and to her complex positioning within the dominant Eurocentric tradition of American literature. Although she saw herself as...
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cairn-RFEA_137_0065RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2013-3-page-65?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.137.0065 « The Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian » : Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far, double héritage ou double dépossession? Gay, Marie-Agnès2014 dépossessionEdith Maude Eaton / Sui Sin Farfiliation littérairehéritagelittérature américaine d'origine asiatiquelittérature sino-américaineAsian American LiteratureChinese American LiteraturedispossessionEdith Maude Eaton / Sui Sin Farlegacyliterary filiationfre Revue française d’études américaines | 137 | 3 | 2014-04-29 | p. 65-79 | 0397-7870 RFEA_13738 Widely recognized today as the foremother of Chinese American letters, Sui Sin Far testifies in her writings to the irreducible tensions arising from her own bi-racial legacy, and to her complex positioning within the dominant Eurocentric tradition of American literature. Although she saw herself as a “connecting link [between] Occidentals and Orientals,” her texts call into question this optimistic sense of a hyphenated identity. In contrast to the assertive verticality that is associated with the notion of heritage, Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far’s autobiographical and fictional works define a space of wavering in-betweenness whereby double inheritance ultimately proves to be double dispossession.Cairn free access |
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Widely recognized today as the foremother of Chinese American letters, Sui Sin Far testifies in her writings to the irreducible tensions arising from her own bi-racial legacy, and to her complex positioning within the dominant Eurocentric tradition of American literature. Although she saw herself as a “connecting link [between] Occidentals and Orientals,” her texts call into question this optimistic sense of a hyphenated identity. In contrast to the assertive verticality that is associated with the notion of heritage, Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far’s autobiographical and fictional works define a space of wavering in-betweenness whereby double inheritance ultimately proves to be double dispossession. |
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