本論文研究身分轉換在任碧蓮<<夢土的莫娜>>所呈現的後屬性理想。故事開始於張莫娜一家搬遷到紐約近郊猶太社區史迦許，在那裡莫娜開始了自我的追尋。身為華裔美國人第一代，張莫娜對於自我屬性呈現了迷惘以及掙扎，除了移民父母對中國的矛盾情結，美國猶太鄰居同學的影響同等影響到莫娜的屬性追求。為了解決屬性的疑惑與對中國性的抗拒，莫娜想出一個「屬性轉換」的點子—屬性轉換就像開關一樣，轉一下就可以換掉屬性成為另一種人。夢娜不僅僅想出點子、甚至還將它套用實現，將自己的屬性轉成猶太文化認同，既然猶太人是美國人，中國人也是美國人，自己變成猶太人其實並不奇怪。但此舉無疑震驚了移民父母，造成更大的隔閡。莫娜同時將這點子介紹給日本轉學生松本夏曼、非裔美國人歐斐、猶太夥伴芭芭拉、謝斯、愛琉思，但由於階級、種族、膚色差異，屬性轉換也因此遭遇到莫娜意想不到的衝突。本研究以莫娜屬性轉換概念為起點，試圖探索建立在自由民主熔爐的美國概念的可顛覆性，並置於華裔美國第一代的屬性追求。其目的在_於將已然消失於主流論述的亞美意識重新彰顯，將亞美族裔在弱勢權力脈絡下的邊緣化再強調，以期此文本的研究重新放置在族群經驗的歷史脈絡以及重新審視多元文化強調彼此差異所產生的內部不平等得以得到研究重視。本研究，除導論與結論外分為三章節，第一章強調於國族間的差異，第二章，將屬性轉移放置在美國內部階級種族差異，第三章以弱勢族群結盟為起點，研究弱勢族群的異質，在後屬性概念為主的屬性轉換下，將亞美屬性的邊緣與難題提點出。

This thesis attempts to read “identity switch” in Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land as an exploration to the Asian American experience veiled by the multiculturalist ethnic commensurability. The research is divided into three chapters: “Sleeping Racist Lover,” “There is no World without Race and Class Walls” and “The Figments of the Cosmopolitan America.” In Chapter One, I try to read the protagonist Mona Chang as the American born kid with no ethnic consciousness resulting in the funny and naive identity switch as a means to escape her innate cultural perplexity. In Chapter Two, the hindrances of this switch are disclosed during the interethnic interactions as to argue the possible setbacks of identity switch and the Asian American’s being alienated from hegemonic black-white relation. In the final chapter, two ethnic alliances set upon the ethnic equality as to resist to the white mainstream oppression are analysed in attempt to argue that the multiculturalist embrace of differences of the minorities eventually falls into a white-black power relation, thereby alienating and silencing Asian Americans. Lastly, I argue that the seemingly funny identity switch on a cosmopolitan intent to de-ethnicise America ultimately discloses the Asian Americans’ dislocation in the land.

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Introduction………………………………………………………………….1

Chapter One: Sleeping Racist Lover………………………………………. 7

Chapter Two: There is No World Without the Racial and Class Walls….26

Chapter Three: The Figments of the Cosmopolitan America…………… 54

Conclusion …………………………………………………………………….82

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