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美國哈林文藝復興時期的女作家妮菈‧勞森，在她生平所出版的兩本小說《流沙》與《逾界》探討身分認同的複雜性，並呈現出美國咆哮的二十年代下種族主義社會的縮影。身為一位哈林文藝復興時期黑白混血的女性小說家，她的混血背景及特殊成長經驗無疑豐富了她的作品內容。她的小說中均呈現出受過教育的黑白混血女性對於當代身份認同的內在衝突、種族困境及被社會排斥的孤離感。本論文冀望以女性主義理論、精神分析理論與酷兒理論來分析兩本小說中的女主角的身分認同問題，並期望透過這些理論的助力來解構由本質主義影響下，虛飾為天生與自然的壓迫性社會意識形態和身分建構。而勞森筆下的女性主角對於身分認同的疑問、困境和對於傳統社會角色的執著不僅揭露出本質主義下所謂的天生身分認同背後的強迫性，也返照出此意識形態如何被視為社會常規並成為手段來維持異性戀霸權的延續。

Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) explore identity’s complexities and the racialized miniature of American society in the roaring twenties. As a female mulatto novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, Larsen’s biracial experience and background enrich her novels. Her novels give us a precious glimpse of the identity conflicts, the racial plight, and the social invisibility of an educated biracial woman in her times. This thesis aims to analyze the identity conflicts of the female protagonists in Larsen’s novels with the aid of feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory. I propose to deconstruct the essentialist ideology of identity in its belief in something that is “natural,” unchanging, and stable. Her heroines’ tragic quest of and obsession with a stable identity indicate the oppressive nature of essentialist identity, which also tends to be a regulatory instrument of heteronormative regime.

Acknowledgement-------------------------------------------------i
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Chinese Abstract----------------------------------------------iii
I. Introduction----------------------------------------------1
A. Nella Larsen and the Harlem Renaissance-------------------1
B. The Question of Self-Identity-----------------------------5
C. Identity Politics and Social Movements--------------------9
II. Quicksand: Trapped Among Personas-----------------------11
A. Behind the Masks: the “Suffocated Something”-------------15
B. Conclusion-----------------------------------------------27
III. Passing: Crossing Boundaries---------------------------29
A. Normativity: Female Identity and Its Social Enclosures---33
B. Conclusion-----------------------------------------------43
IV. Identity in Quicksand and Passing-----------------------45
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