在目前愈來愈受重視的文化認同議題上，譚恩美在《喜福會》中充分地展現了華裔美國人在美國環境中的認同困境。面對自己的雙重文化背景，華裔美國人往往採取抗拒的態度，這常使得中國認同成為她們的包袱，誤以為只有拋棄中國認同才能使她們在美國被認同與接受。本論文提供了三個主題，分別從華裔美人的自我認同、語言和時空變化中打破華裔美國人普遍的迷思，亦即隱藏甚至打壓自己的中國認同才能使自己的認同不致混亂而獲得平衡。這三項主題同時也顯示在文中的華裔美人的內心成長，從抗拒到認同，她們終對自我肯定並創造出獨立的華裔美國人的歷史。

Introduction

Chapter One: Disintegration of a Unitary Chinese or American Self: Emergence of New Female Selfhood

Chapter Two: Decentering the Languages

Chapter Three: Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Space

Conclusion

Amy Tan has created The Joy Luck Club a book with Chinese Americans' struggles and inner conflicts in American context. In this book, Tan manages four pairs of Chinese American mothers and daughters to demonstrate their conflicts in both generation gaps and cultural identities. In the searching of cultural identities, we see resistance, negotiation and ultimately the communication between the mothers and the daughters. This book successfully portraits the becoming process of the in-between cultural identities of the Chinese Americans.

This thesis is divided into five parts: Introduction, three chapters, and Conclusion. Three chapters discuss the development of the characters via the themes of self-construction, language application, and the arrangement of time and space not only to abolish monolithic American cultural identity but also to motivate an equal valuation for Chinese identity. By exploring these themes in the life of the Chinese Americans in The Joy Luck Club, I would like to inspire a border perspective for Chinese Americans to reach their cultural identities.

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