Diasporic still life: Midnight at the Dragon Café and the cultural politics of stasis

This article revisits and reevaluates the role that “stasis” can play as a literary technique in diasporic Chinese Canadian writing. To these ends I read Chinese Canadian author Judy Fong Bates’s debut novel Midnight at the Dragon Café (2005) as an important and intimate map of the social geography...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of Commonwealth literature 2022-06, Vol.57 (2), p.462-476
1. Verfasser:	August, Timothy K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bates, Judy Fong (1949- ) Chinese Canadians Diaspora Equilibrium Immigrants Interpersonal relations Literary characters Literary criticism Literary devices Novels Plot (Narrative) Politics Socioeconomic factors
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