Donald Duk (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Chin
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Dreams, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Asia or Asians, Multiculturalism, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Railroads
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Donald Duk presents characters in positions similar to the ones they occupy in Chin's earlier works, but the novel reverses the characteristics of those that hold the positions. Specifically, his short stories and plays show a young Chinese American man who is constructing a viable tradition to put in place of the soul-destroying one given him by America; this construction is interfered with by a father figure, who may be a media image, such as Charlie Chan, who perpetuates the hurtful culture. In Donald Duk, however, it is the father who has located the viable, laudable...
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