《父亲的微笑之光》是著名黑人女权主义者艾丽斯·沃克的代表作品,小说以黑人家庭为背景,通过描写两个黑人姐妹的故事表达了作者对黑人女性的关怀。波琳是小说中一个性格鲜明的黑人女性,小说中她表现出了雌雄同体、母亲、“雄性”等多个“性别”身份,作品中沃克将其从异性恋者转向同性恋者的身份切换中,表达了她想借助其身份操演来试图寻求一种最适合女性的主体身份,已完成对当前性秩序的反抗。将波琳放置在性别操演理论下进行审视,发现她具有多种身份契合了朱迪斯·巴特勒所提出的性别操演理论定义的社会性别身份。 “Father’s Smiling Light” is the representative work of the famous black feminist Alice Walker. The novel is based on the black family and expresses the author’s concern for black women by describing the stories of two black sisters. Pauline is a distinctively black woman in the novel. In her novels, she shows hermaphrodite, mother, multiple “gender” identities such as “males”. In her works, Walker shifts from heterosexuals to homosexuals In the switch of identity, she expressed that she wanted to use her identity exercises to try to find a main body identity that best suits women and has completed the resistance against the current sexual order. Surveying Pauline under the theory of gender exercises found that she has multiple identities that fit the gender identity as defined by Judith Butler’s theoretical definition of gender.