| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7页 |
| Introduction | 第10-18页 |
| I. Multiculturalism in America: From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl | 第18-28页 |
| A. From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl | 第18-23页 |
| 1. Melting Pot: Assimilation into White American Homogeneous Culture | 第19-21页 |
| 2. Salad Bowl: Retaining Heterogeneous Ethnic Culture s | 第21-23页 |
| B. Multicultural Representation in Mona in the Promised Land | 第23-28页 |
| 1. Gish Jen: An Anti-Essentialist Writer | 第23-26页 |
| 2. Mona: Incarnation of Multi-C ulturalism | 第26-28页 |
| II. Mona’s Bewilderment on Female Ethnic Identity | 第28-44页 |
| A. Repressed by Chinese Patriarchal Culture | 第28-34页 |
| 1. Mona’s Parents: The Signifier of Chinese Culture | 第28-31页 |
| 2. Conflicts with Chinese Patriarchal Culture | 第31-33页 |
| 3. Alienation from C hinese Identity | 第33-34页 |
| B. Excluded by the Mainstream White Culture | 第34-39页 |
| 1. Orientalist Paradigm Perpetuated in the White American Society | 第35-37页 |
| 2. Marginalized by the Mainstream C ulture | 第37-39页 |
| C. Mona’s Identity Confusion between Cultures | 第39-44页 |
| 1. Unhomed Mona: Wandering in the“Third Space” | 第39-41页 |
| 2. Confused by Other Minority Diasporas | 第41-44页 |
| III. Construction of Subjective, Hybrid, and Fluid Female Identity | 第44-58页 |
| A. Construction of Female Subjective Identity | 第44-48页 |
| 1. Theorizing Female Subjectivity | 第44-46页 |
| 2. Establishment of Mona’s Female Subjectivity | 第46-48页 |
| B. Construction of Hybrid Identity | 第48-52页 |
| 1. Hybridity of Cultures in Diaspora | 第49-50页 |
| 2. Construction of Hybrid Identity by Negotiating Multiple C ultures | 第50-52页 |
| C. Construction of Fluid Identity | 第52-58页 |
| 1. Identity Fluidity in Diaspora | 第52-55页 |
| 2. Mona’s Dynamic Identities | 第55-58页 |
| Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| Works C ited | 第60-68页 |
| Papers Published | 第68页 |
