声明
Acknowledgements
摘要
Abstract
Contents
1.Introduction
1.1 Anne Tyler’s life and works
1.2 Literature review
1.3 Theoretic basis and thesis structure
2.Iranian Diaspora’s Identity and Their Cultural Practices
2.1 Identity issue in language choice
2.2 Food and cultural identity
2.3 Cultural identity in manners
2.4 Iranian diasporic community and cultural identity
2.5 Values and cultural identity
3.Iranian Diaspora’s Cultural Identity as Outsider in America
3.1 Americans’‘‘Othering’’of Iranian Americans
3.1.1 Americans’ political antagonism against lranian Americans
3.1.2 Americans’ racial and cultural discrimination against Iranian diaspora
3.2 Iranian diaspora’s cultural attitudes
3.2.1 Iranian diaspora’s attachment to Iran
3.2.2 Iranian diaspora’s prejudice against American culture
4.Characteristics of Iranian Diaspora’s Cultural Identity
4.1 Identity ambiguity of the Iranian diaspora
4.1.1 Lost original cultural identity and partial acculturation in America
4.1.2 Superficial Americanization and innate Iranianness
4.2 Intragenerational and intergenerational diversity of cultural identity
4.2.1 First generation’s diasporic patterns
4.2.2 Second generation’s explorations of cultural identity
5.Conclusion
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