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 see-king cultural identity.To get out of this,Ruth turns to seek ethnic culture and perform her own Chinese identity while integra-ting 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 per-formance 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.
Amy TanThe Bonesetters'Daughterethnic identityidentity performancefluidity of identity
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