《无声告白》中美籍华裔女性的身份建构分析

On the Identity Construction of Chinese-American Women in Silent Confessions

《无声告白》的莉迪亚在其短暂人生中,一直在建构身份的困境中挣扎。根据霍米·巴巴“文化的定位”,莉迪亚应当是缺少自我意识,没能正确认识美籍华裔身份的双重混合性,因而无法建立属于自己的“第三空间”,最终导致其身份建构失败,通过自杀走出现实的“噩梦”。华人融入美国社会仍面临种族障碍。

Lydia’s Silent Confessions has been struggling to construct her identity in her short life.According to HomiBaba’s“cultural positioning”,Lydia may lack self-awareness and fail to correctly understand the dual mixture of Chinese American identity,so she is unable to establish her own“third space”,which eventually leads to her failure in identity construction and get out of the real“nightmare”through suicide.