Writers with a cause: Sui Sin Far and Han Suyin |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), Environmental and Biotechnology Center (UBZ), Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany;2. Wetland and Ecological Treatment Systems Ltd, Maitland, NSW, Australia;3. Naturally Wallace Consulting LLC, P.O. Box 37, Stillwater, MN 55082, USA;4. Department of Bioscience, Aquatic Biology, Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;5. Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department Analytical Chemistry, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany;1. Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan;2. Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan |
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| Abstract: | ‘We're cause people, whether we like it or not,’ said Mai-Mai Sze to a black student who had just been shunned by two white students at a lunch counter in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Eurasian writers Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton, 1867–1914) and Han Suyin (Rosalie Chou, 1917– ) would strongly concur. Though separated by space and time, both have taken as their cause the wrongs done to peoples of color, primarily the Chinese, and to women. In her short stories Sui Sin Far fought the prevailing notions of the Chinese in America as ‘heathen’ and ‘unassimilable.’ Attentive to the world situation, Han Suyin has been fighting for the oppressed in sixteen books from 1942 to her most recent novel in 1985. In several novels, she draws an important connection between colonialism and sexism. This paper compares the socio-political atmosphere of their times and their literary contributions to their cause. |
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