A GLIMPSE OF CULTURAL DIVISION IN THE NOVEL MIDNIGHT AT THE DRAGON CAFÉ
A GLIMPSE OF CULTURAL DIVISION IN THE NOVEL MIDNIGHT AT THE DRAGON CAFÉ

Summary/Abstract: The huge issue of identity representation in fiction seems to have gained ever more weight over the past decades by an unprecedented variety of problematics in the “ethnic writing” by authors from minority communities that have been marginalized before the favorable cultural shift occurred in the Canadian society of a recent past through more hospitable legislation. Such ethnic writers expand the social concept of identity more often than not by blending sexuality and race, nationality and ethnicity in their narrated experiences with the struggles for recognition and integration. Cultural division in such a society is the focus of this article, in conjunction with a Chinese family’s drama which particularly affects the child protagonist and her personal experiences during the process of acculturation in the novel Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates.

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