露丝·杨的美中双重身份操演——论《接骨师之女》的身份流动性-《集美大学学报》（哲社版）

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Title:: Ruth Young’s Dual American and Chinese Identity Performance:On Identity Fluidity in The Bonesetters Daughter

Author(s):: ZHANGChunmei; WANG Yanping; School of Foreign Languages,Jimei University,Xiamen 361021,China

Keywords:: Amy Tan; The Bonesetters Daughter; ethnic identity; identity performance; fluidity of identity

摘要:: 谭恩美的第四部长篇小说《接骨师之女》的女主人公露丝·杨是典型的“ABC”，在美国化的道路上，她首先操演美国人的身份，抛弃自己的华人文化和身份，结果遭遇种族歧视，成为西方社会的边缘人、他者，陷入文化身份寻求的危机。为了走出人生低谷，在融入美国主流社会的同时，露丝转而寻根华裔文化，对自己的华裔身份进行操演，从而达成融合，重建美中双重文化身份。运用朱迪斯·巴特勒的身份操演理论分析《接骨师之女》，能清楚地看到，主人公露丝·杨从抛弃华人文化身份到建构美中双重文化身份的过程是社会建构下的族裔身份操演，它解构了身份的本质主义，体现了文化身份的流动性，有助于增进族裔和多元文化的大融合，推动人类命运共同体理念的实现。

Abstract:: Ruth Yang,the protagonist of Amy Tan’s fourth novel The Bonesetters Daughter,is a typical “ABC”.On her road of Americanization,she first performs American identity and abandons her Chinese culture and identity.As a result,she encounters racial discrimination and becomes a marginal person and other in the Western society,and falls into the crisis of seeking cultural identity.To get out of this,Ruth turns to seek ethnic culture and perform her own Chinese identity while integrating into the mainstream society of the United States,and builds a dual cultural identity of China and the United States.Using Judith Butler’s theory of identity performance to analyze The Bonesetters Daughter,it can be seen that Ruth Yang’s identity performance from abandoning Chinese cultural identity to constructing a dual cultural identity is an ethnic identity performance under social construction,which deconstructs the essentialism of identity,reflects the fluidity of cultural identity,helps to integrate ethnic groups and multi-cultures,and to realize a community with a shared future for mankind.