Between "Gibson Girl" and "Flapper"

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Sooyoung Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제107호, 21~40쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

This study examines how Winnifred Eaton, better known by her penname Onota Watanna, presented her image in published photographs and her purported autobiographical novel, Me: A Book of Remembrance, by positioning herself under the discourses of the American "New Woman." At the turn of the century in America, the New Women were symbols of modernity and an upper level in the evolutionary sense, represented in the figure of the Gibson girl. However, there was also a concern about the emergence of a young, urban, single, working girl threatening the middle class home, represented later in popular culture as a flapper. Under the divided discourses around the new woman, Watanna skillfully becomes an icon of a young American modern woman and avoids the dangers of being excluded from the categorization because of her racial and class disadvantages as a half-Asian woman writer. These strategies, in reality, contributed to her assimilation into the dominant literary society as an American woman writer.

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The American New Woman Winnifred Eaton Onoto Watanna Flapper Asian American Literature Chinese American Literature