维·苏·奈保尔是后殖民时代典型的移民作家,其作品《河湾》讲述了殖民统治崩溃后生活在非洲的人们寻求身份而未果的崎岖道路。本文从身份研究的视角出发,分析了小说主人公萨林姆在流放中所经历的困惑以及自我身份寻求时的艰辛,阐释了在文化多元的后殖民时代,第三世界人民的身份危机产生的原因,身份认同的困惑以及身份重构的失败,旨在说明只有接受混合的身份定位、进行文化的交融与杂合才能完成身份的重构。 Victoria Su Nepalese, a typical migrant writer in the post-colonial era whose work “The Bay of Rivers,” tells the story of the hard-fought path taken by people living in Africa after the collapse of colonial rule. From the perspective of identity research, this thesis analyzes the perplexity of the protagonist Salin in exile and the hardship when seeking self-identity, and explains why the identity crisis of the people in the third world occurred in the post-colonial era of culture diversity , The confusion of identities and the failure of identity reconstruction aim to show that only reconciliation of identities can be accomplished through the blending of cultures and heterozygosity.