Before the coining of the term “ornamentalism” in 2018 by Anne Anlin Cheng, the concept was explored by Winnifred Eaton in her short story “A Half-Caste” (1899). The alternation of Okikusan’s depiction as an object or a human being is reliant on movement; in categorizing movement in the story as either organic or inorganic, as … Continue reading Movement as a Means of Agency in “A Half Caste”