Our fifth Saturday chat (that occured live on Twitter Spaces on 4-30-22) continues the past week’s conversation on Baoyu’s sexual initiation – both in dreamland at the end of Chapter 5, and in the ‘real world’ at the beginning of the following chapter. Waiyee, Ann, and Eileen chat about one of the best known characters in HLM, that of Granny Liu – and of narrative spaces as seen by outsiders and interlopers; and reader/writerly identifications and perspectival shifts in narrations.

And after taking a week’s hiatus, we’ll be back this Saturday May 14 to talk about Wang Xifeng!

Saturday Chat #5 On Entering New Narrative Spaces