論文提要
　　出生在種族混合紐約的奧黛．羅德擁有黑人、女性、女同性戀者等多種身分，《查米：我的名字之新命名》是她作為黑人女同性戀者的自傳式的故事。雖然羅德出生在美國，但她不認同美國是她的家，相反地，她更嚮往從母親口中所聽聞到的祖國，格瑞納達。本論文的研究主要在分析羅德在《查米》一書中所待過的三個地方：哈林區、墨西哥和格林威治村，透過她和當地居民的互動和當時社會背景的影響，如何形塑出種族和性別的多種身份並且找到家。
　　首先，第一章討論羅德的出生地，哈林區，它是個種族交雜，以白人為主的異性戀的地區。在此，羅德意識到她黑人身份的不同，但她的女同性戀者身份還不明顯。第二章著重於她的墨西哥之旅，事實上，墨西哥之旅包含兩個地方：墨西哥城和Cuernavaca。在墨西哥城，發展她的黑人身份認同，而在Cuernavaca，她遇見Eudora，Eudora是位女同性戀者，她啟發羅德的女同性戀性欲，因此，羅德在這二個地方分別發展她的黑人和女同性戀者身份。第三章探討羅德在格林威治村所發展出的黑人女同志身份。格林威治村是屬於同性戀者的地區，很多同性戀者在此聚集並且發展出同性戀者的次文化。羅德在這同性戀地區發展黑人女同志身份。這三個地方都使羅德成長，蛻變，並且形塑她的黑人女同志身份。由於她尋找自我身份的努力和其他女人的愛幫助她找到自己的位置，並且創造出一個在文本中的家。

Abstract
　A daughter of Caribbean immigrants and born in racially mixed New York, Audre Lorde has multiple identities as being black, woman, and lesbian. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is the autobiographical narrative of her black lesbian experience. Even though Lorde was born in America, she does not consider racist America as her home. Instead, she is more fascinated with Grenada, her mother’s homeland, and a place she knows from her mother’s storytelling. This study analyzes Lorde’s Zami to investigate how Harlem, Mexico and Greenwich Village, three locations Lorde lived, shaped her identities and helped her find her home.
　The first chapter deals with Lorde’s birthplace, Harlem, the beginning of her quest. It is a heterosexual community of diverse inhabitants. Growing up in Harlem, Lorde is aware of her racial differences because people around her are mostly white. But, her lesbian identity has not yet begun to emerge. The second chapter focuses on Lorde’s Mexico trip in which she commutes between two places, Mexico City and Cuernavaca. In Mexico City, she shares the racial sameness with the residents because Mexico City has many dark-skinned people whom she can identify with; on the other hand, staying in Cuernavaca enables her to meet with Eudora, her lesbian lover who enlightens her in sexuality. Thus, Lorde develops her racial identity in Mexico City and her lesbian identity in Cuernavaca. The third chapter discusses Lorde’s last stop in Zami, Greenwich Village. It is a homosexual community where many gays and lesbians gather and which features a gay and lesbian subculture. Being involved in this kind of homosexual community, Lorde develops her racial identity. To conclude, each of these three places forces Lorde to grow, change, and shape her identities as being a black lesbian. Her efforts to seek her identities and other women’s love finally help her to locate herself and recreate her home, a mythical space in the text.

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