北美移民作家严歌苓的小说中蕴含了丰富的创作意图,表现出了复杂的矛盾冲突,在中西方文化、社会各个方面的碰撞中呈现出鲜明的特色,在北美华人文坛占有极为重要的位置。本文主要探讨了严歌苓的多重身份对其创作的影响以及小说《阿曼达》中的矛盾叙事,以此梳理严歌苓小说在创作中体现出的女性意识、叙事特征和复调话语背景。 North American immigrant writer Yan Geling’s novels contain a wealth of creative intentions, showing complicated conflicts and contradictions. They show distinctive features in the collision of Chinese and Western cultures and social fields, and hold an extremely important position in North American Chinese literary circles. This article mainly discusses the influence of Yan Geling’s multiple identities on his writing and the contradictory narration in the novel Amanda, in order to sort out the female consciousness, the narrative feature and the background of the polyphonic discourse in Yan Geling’s novels.