Winnifred Eaton Project
Symposium
The Winnifred Eaton Symposium occurred over two days, March 15th & 16th, 2007, at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University. Dr. Jean Lee Cole gave the keynote address. The symposium participants and organizers were undergraduate students. Papers reflected a diversity of interests, and students chose a variety of approaches, ranging from theoretical to biographical to print culture and cultural studies. Heidi Ebert received the best paper prize for her paper titled 'Winnifred Eaton and the Language of Food."
The text of select essays presented at the symposium can be accessed below by clicking on highlighted links.
March 15th
Keynote Address
"Designs that Bind: Racializing the Books of Winnifred Eaton, Charles Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar"
Dr. Jean Cole
Department of English, Loyola College, Maryland
Owens Art Gallery, 7pm
Dr. Lee Cole is the author of numerous critical articles on Winnifred Eaton, as well as The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (Rutgers UP, 2002). She also maintains The Winnifred Eaton Digital Archive, http://etext.virginia.edu/eaton/. Other publications include Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (Rutgers 2008 co-edited and introduction with Charles Mitchell), "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long and "A Japanese Nightingale" by Onoto Watanna, (co-edited and introduction with Maureen Honey).
The Winnifred Eaton Book Exhibit is officially launched at the R. P. Bell Library.
March 16th
Locations:
Owens - Owens Art Gallery
Chapel - Mount Allison University Chapel
8:30- 9:50am
Winnifred Eaton and the Uses of Orientalism
(Chapel), Chair: Jeremy MacFarlane
- Claire Burrows, “Undermining Orientalism”
- Alexandra Ferguson, “Onoto Watanna and the Construction and Commodification of the Orient”
- Jeremy MacFarlane, “Eaton’s Orientalism: Crass or Clever?”
Reading Winnifred Eaton
(Owens) Chair: Emily Gordon
- Jessica Parisian, “The New Woman in Selected Works of Winnifred Eaton”
- Emily Gordon, “National Literary Responses to ‘Onoto Watanna’: Early 20th C. American and Canadian Reviews”
- Dawn Hudson, “The New Woman, Independence and Liberation”
- Amanda MacKenzie, “Winnifred Eaton and Missionary Endeavors”
10-11:20am
Winnifred Eaton and the Uses of Orientalism
(Chapel) Chair: Brit Mockler
- Fahreen Kurji, “The Manipulation of Orientalism”
- Brit Mockler, “A Woman of Two Lands: Winnifred Eaton and Onoto Watanna”
- Lydia Smith, “Orientalism in Winnifred Eaton’s Work”
Winnifred Eaton's Independent Women
(Owens), Chair: Stephanie Marin
- Kathryn Harris, “An Analysis of Winnifred Eaton’s Assertion of Female Independence”
- Stephanie Marin, “The Mixed Race Woman in Winnifred Eaton’s ‘A Daughter of Two Lands’”
- Doug Maclean, “Independence and Eaton: A Look at Female Autonomy”
- Jen Settle, “Racial Loyalty in Select Stories of Winnifred Eaton”
11:30-1pm LUNCH
1-2:20pm
Winnifred Eaton and the Language of Food
(Chapel), Chair: Jennifer Guarre
- Aileen Mens, “The Chinese-Japanese Cookbook as Recipe for American Pluralism”
- Jennifer Guarre, “Orientalism Through Food”
- Heidi Ebert, “Winnifred Eaton and the Language of Food”
Freaks, Children and Promoting it all
(Owens), Chair: Christine Mayor
- Christine Mayor, “Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show”
- Beth Goslett, “Dual Audience and Racial Bigotry among Children in Edith Eaton’s ‘Pat and Pan’”
- Carolyn Jong, “The Art of Publicity”
2:30-4pm
Reading The Chinese Japanese Cookbook
(Chapel), Chair: Elizabeth Flemming
- Elizabeth Flemming, “The Subversion of Ethnocentrism through The Chinese-Japanese Cookbook”
- Kaitlyn Hutchinson, “Consuming Asian American Women in The Chinese-Japanese Cookbook”
- Jared Sargent, “Winnifred Eaton, Cookbooks and Cultures”
Race, Gender, Assimilation and the Eaton Sisters
(Owens), Chair: Jessica Nowlan
- Haley Regan, “Carnival and the Racial Other in Winnifred Eaton’s ‘The Loves of Sakura Jiro’”
- Brittany Trafford, “The New Woman in Winnifred Eaton’s Short Stories”
- Pamela Cripps , “Winnifred Eaton: The New Woman and Race”
- Jessica Nowlan, “Cultural Understanding and Assimilation in the Works of Winnifred and Edith Eaton”