Projections of Diasporic Sensibilities through Travel: Wong Kar Wai in/and My Blueberry Nights

This article argues for My Blueberry Nights as a projection of Wong Kar Wai’s diasporic sensibilities through the trope of travel. How does the film expand and problematize classical notions of diaspora within the discourse of transnational Chinese cinemas? As such, how does it expand the notion of Chinese diasporas within the context and constraints of transnational Chinese cinemas? How does it complicate the already intricate and tangled ideas of movement, stasis, and home? We can only hope to profitably answer these questions by understanding, first of all, the diachronic, multifaceted, and multispatial nature of travel.