The Heart of Hyacinth

The Heart of Hyacinth
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9780295802619
ISBN-13 : 0295802618
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Book Synopsis The Heart of Hyacinth by : Onoto Watanna

Download or read book The Heart of Hyacinth written by Onoto Watanna and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heart of Hyacinth, originally published in 1903, tells the coming-of-age story of Hyacinth Lorrimer, a child of white parents who was raised from infancy in Japan by a Japanese foster mother and assumed to be Eurasian. A crisis occurs when, 18 years after her birth, her American father returns to Japan to reclaim her just as Hyacinth has become engaged to a Japanese aristocrat, and she forcefully asserts her Japanese ties only to find that her prospective father-in-law will not tolerate a white wife for his son. Onoto Watanna creates in her protagonist a young white woman who not only claims a Japanese identity but shifts between her Japaneseness and her whiteness as expediency dictates. In this novel Watanna is on the cutting edge of what we now call race theory, using that theory—of racial constructions and fluidity—in the service of an avant-garde feminism.


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