| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-22页 |
| 1.1 Anne Tyler's life and works | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第14-18页 |
| 1.3 Theoretic basis and thesis structure | 第18-22页 |
| 2. Iranian Diaspora's Identity and Their Cultural Practices | 第22-43页 |
| 2.1 Identity issue in language choice | 第22-26页 |
| 2.2 Food and cultural identity | 第26-30页 |
| 2.3 Cultural identity in manners | 第30-34页 |
| 2.4 Iranian diasporic community and cultural identity | 第34-37页 |
| 2.5 Values and cultural identity | 第37-43页 |
| 3. Iranian Diaspora's Cultural Identity as Outsider in America | 第43-54页 |
| 3.1 Americans' "Othering" of Iranian Americans | 第43-48页 |
| 3.1.1 Americans' political antagonism against Iranian Americans | 第43-45页 |
| 3.1.2 Americans' racial and cultural discrimination against Iranian diaspora | 第45-48页 |
| 3.2 Iranian diaspora's cultural attitudes | 第48-54页 |
| 3.2.1 Iranian diaspora's attachment to Iran | 第48-51页 |
| 3.2.2 Iranian diaspora's prejudice against American culture | 第51-54页 |
| 4. Characteristics of Iranian Diaspora's Cultural Identity | 第54-64页 |
| 4.1 Identity ambiguity of the Iranian diaspora | 第54-58页 |
| 4.1.1 Lost original cultural identity and partial acculturation in America | 第54-56页 |
| 4.1.2 Superficial Americanization and innate Iranianness | 第56-58页 |
| 4.2 Intragenerational and intergenerational diversity of cultural identity | 第58-64页 |
| 4.2.1 First generation's diasporic patterns | 第59-61页 |
| 4.2.2 Second generation's explorations of cultural identity | 第61-64页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第64-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-70页 |
