| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Joseph Conrad and his major literary achievements | 第11-12页 |
| ·A brief introduction to Heart of Darkness | 第12-13页 |
| ·The literature review | 第13-16页 |
| 2 Theoretical perspective | 第16-19页 |
| ·An Understanding of Postcolonialism | 第16-18页 |
| ·A brief introduction to Edward. W. Said and his Postcolonial theory-Orientalism | 第18-19页 |
| 3 An Analysis of Orientalism in Heart of Darkness | 第19-38页 |
| ·Heart of Darkness: the projected image of Africa as 'the Other World' | 第20-27页 |
| ·African nature depicted as the foil and antithesis of Western nature | 第20-23页 |
| ·Life in Africa depicted as barbaric and primitive: the antithesis of Western civilization | 第23-27页 |
| ·Black Africans depicted as barbaric, bestial, and ugly: the antithesis of Western Whites | 第27-33页 |
| ·The negative descriptions of African men in contrast to Western men | 第27-31页 |
| ·The negative descriptions of African women in contrast to Western women | 第31-33页 |
| ·Marlow's account as revelation of a lurking Orientalism | 第33-38页 |
| ·Marlow's attitude toward Africa and African blacks | 第34-36页 |
| ·Marlow's attitude toward White protagonists: the Western representatives | 第36-38页 |
| 4 From literary text to reality: reflective thoughts from Heart of Darkness | 第38-57页 |
| ·The Orientalism Conrad holds of black Africans | 第38-44页 |
| ·Heart of Darkness as an autobiographical account | 第39-42页 |
| ·Conrad's Orientalist image of Africa and African blacks | 第42-44页 |
| ·Orientalism in Heart of Darkness as actual reflection of the common idea that Western Whites hold of'the Other World' | 第44-50页 |
| ·Orientalism in Heart of Darkness as none-individual matter | 第45-46页 |
| ·Orientalism: the collective idea that Western Whites hold of 'the Other World' | 第46-50页 |
| ·The consistency and consequences of Orientalism | 第50-57页 |
| ·The current Western Universalism and Cultural Imperialism: the continuance of Orientalism | 第50-53页 |
| ·The clashes of civilizations: the outcome of current Orientalism | 第53-57页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第57-61页 |
| Notes | 第61-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-67页 |
| Appendix | 第67-70页 |
