| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第11-19页 |
| 1.1 Junot Diaz and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第12-16页 |
| 1.3 Focus and structure of the thesis | 第16-19页 |
| 2. Oscar's Cultural Identity Crisis and Its Historical Roots | 第19-29页 |
| 2.1 Dual marginalization by two cultures | 第19-24页 |
| 2.1.1 An outsider in American culture | 第19-21页 |
| 2.1.2 Alienation from Dominican culture | 第21-24页 |
| 2.2 Continuing impacts of the troubled past | 第24-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Stemming from Trujillo's dictatorship | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2.2 European colonization | 第27-29页 |
| 3. Oscar's Efforts to Seek for Cultural Identification | 第29-40页 |
| 3.1 Attempt to integrate into American culture | 第29-31页 |
| 3.2 A new understanding of Dominican culture | 第31-40页 |
| 3.2.1 The first return to Dominica: nostalgia to this land | 第32-35页 |
| 3.2.2 The second return: Oscar's exploration of his Dominicanness | 第35-40页 |
| 4. Construction of the Hybrid Cultural Identity | 第40-49页 |
| 4.1 The change of his attitude towards Dominican history | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2 Reconstruction of the erased Dominican history | 第41-43页 |
| 4.3 The balance of Dominican-American identity | 第43-49页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-52页 |
