Jake finally discovers the pretention of masculinity after he commits iconoclasm,and reconstructs his masculine identity on the basis of genuine heroism.

At present, the mass media and consumerism work together to put the male body into the consumer system, creating new meaning to market constantly.

Because of its own gender identity and social role of the conflict between makes the novel s female generals.

With the prominence of feminism, the investigation on translation studies has brought the issues of gender identity to the light of cultural identity.

This position of "double outsider" makes it difficult for her to pursue her identity, but it is this embarrassing position that makes it more urgent to pursue her identity, particularly, her cultural identity and gender identity.

Her tenth novel The Blind Assassin, the winner of the influential Booker Prize, through its embedded narrative structure, in the same vein examines the female identity and constructs a unique, complicated female protagonist, Iris.

It became an immediate success and met with various criticism which is either directed toward such ideological issues as ethnicity, female identity, cross-cultural presentation, or toward such formalistic issues as genre and postmodern thinkings.

The present study purposes to contribute formalistic narratology to the study of female identity in Maxine Hong Kingston s Woman Warrior.