《地狱——天堂》选自茱帕·拉希里的短篇小说集《不适之地》。《不适之地》不同于以往的作品,它言说着第二代移民对自己双重身份的关注与自我的调适。对于美国土生土长的人来说,移民者成为美国人眼中的“他者”。在这种身份认同的过程中,人们往往更关注于整个移民者的境遇与遭遇,而常常忽视美国印裔妇女在家庭与双重文化的夹击中的艰难与错位,表现最明显的是《地狱——天堂》。 Hell - Paradise is a collection of short stories by Gipp. Rasheli, Discomfort. Unlike the previous works, “discomfort” speaks of the concern and self-adaptation of second generation immigrants to their dual identities. For native Americans, immigrants become “others ” in the eyes of Americans. In this process of identity, people tend to pay more attention to the situation and sufferings of the entire immigrant, and often neglect the hardship and dislocation of American Indian women in the family and dual culture. What is most obvious is that “Hell - -heaven”.