Donald Duk (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Chin
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: San Francisco, California
- Principal Characters: Donald Duk, King Duk, Uncle Donald Duk, Daisy Duk, Penelope, Venus, Arnold Azalea, Mr. Meanwright, Larry Louie
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Novel
Donald Duk deals with the identity crisis of a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy living in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The protagonist gradually comes to discover himself and his cultural heritage through ritualistic participation in the Chinese New Year celebration and through a series of surrealistic dreams about working on the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869.
The novel contains eighteen chapters and an epilogue. Chin uses an omniscient point of view to tell the story dramatically in the present tense. He strategically blends history, myth, and...
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