《銀姊》一書巧妙地結合了銀姊及黃貞才兩位華裔澳人的生活經歷，作者黃貞才將銀姊波折的遷徙經歷呈現給讀者，並為後代描繪了華裔澳洲女性的身分認同之途徑與根源(routes/roots)。此論文之研究目的在於運用Susan Stanford Friedman的超越不同(going beyond difference)、灰色地帶(borderlands)、及混雜性(hybridity)理論，分析黃貞才之《銀姊》，來探索二華裔澳人銀姊及黃貞才如何周旋於不同的身分之中並超越所有不同。首先，藉由書中敘述結構及語氣，追溯文本的途徑與根源(textual routes/roots)，來洞悉銀姊及黃貞才之身分認同如何結合在一起；其次，藉由他們曾居留不同之文化處所，探索其地理上的途徑與根源(geographical routes/roots)，來闡明層層混雜的身分認同；再者，藉由追溯其歷史途徑與根源(historical routes/roots)，強調歷史上的特殊時刻如何影響銀姊及Kim（或Lillian）之多重身分。總之，透過敘述、地理及歷史三個層面來研究介於不同疆界之間的灰色地帶，我們可以重新釐清兩位華裔澳洲女性如何周旋於不同的身分認同、形成其混雜性、並超越所有不同。

　　The migratory story, Silver Sister, ingeniously intertwines the life experience of two Chinese Australian women, Silver Sister and Kim. By juxtaposing Silver Sister’s Chinese past and Australian present, Lillian Ng, the author, envisions for the reader the fluctuations of Silver Sister’s migratory experience. As a first generation immigrant, Ng depicts for her following generations the routes/roots of the identities of a Chinese Australian woman through her narratives. This study aims to analyze Lillian Ng’s Silver Sister to investigate how two Chinese Australians, Silver Sister and Lillian Ng, move back and forth among different identities and go beyond differences in terms of Susan Stanford Friedman’s theories of going beyond differences, borderlands, and cultural hybridity. First of all, I trace the textual routes/roots via the narrative structure and the voices of Silver Sister to get an insight of how the identities of Silver Sister and Ng are wedded together. Secondly, I explore their geographical routes/roots through different cultural locations that Silver Sister and Kim stay to unveil the hybridic layering of identities. Thirdly, I emphasize how the specific moments in history affect the formations of Silver Sister’s and Kim’s hybridic identities to trace their historical routes/roots. To conclude, through the narrative, geographical, and historical search in the borderlands between differences, we can remap how two Chinese Australian women move back and forth among different identities, form their hybridity, and go beyond all differences.

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