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 ...
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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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Good. Watanna was a Canadian author named Winnifred Eaton. Although she was of Chinese-British ancestry, she published under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna. Includes multi-colored decorated cover, decorated endpapers, color frontis with tissue guard, and three full page color illustrations, all by Kiyokichi Sano. Top edge gilt with deckled edges. Edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.
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New. New. No dust jacket as issued. BRAND NEW. Gift quality. Mint condition. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of The Heart of Hyacinth to cart. $14.43, very good condition, Sold by Ken's Book Haven rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coopersburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1903 by Harper & Brothers.
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Sano, Kiyokichi. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Book Condition: Good-very good. Slight rubbing along cover spine edges. Very minor cracking at some inside pages.
Add this copy of The Heart of Hyacinth to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Persephone's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gastonia, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1903 by Harper & Brothers.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 251. 251 pp. The lavender decorative cover is slightly soiled, and the corners are a bit worn. Previous owner names on two front free endpapers. The binding is tight and the text is clean and bright; the decorated text pages are especially striking.
Add this copy of The Heart of Hyacinth (Other Auth. Or Illus: Sano, to cart. $15.00, Sold by Reed Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Birmingham, AL, UNITED STATES, published by Harper.
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Add this copy of The Heart of Hyacinth to cart. $15.06, very good condition, Sold by West Coast Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Moorpark, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1903 by Harper & Brothers.
