| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Midnight’s Children as a Parody | 第13-28页 |
| ·Politics of Parody | 第13-14页 |
| ·Saleem’s Story of Historical Scandals | 第14-16页 |
| ·Saleem’s Story of General Ayub’s Coup | 第16-18页 |
| ·Saleem’s Life as a Loser | 第18-20页 |
| ·Saleem’s Relation with the Nation | 第20-24页 |
| ·Saleem’s Hybrid Identity and Physical Disintegration | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Two Midnight’s Children as Metafiction | 第28-41页 |
| ·Politics of Metafiction | 第28-30页 |
| ·Saleem’s Self-doubt as a Narrator | 第30-32页 |
| ·Saleem’s Fallible Memory | 第32-35页 |
| ·Saleem’s Self-comments on His Narration | 第35-36页 |
| ·Padma as a Surrogate Reader | 第36-38页 |
| ·Artists of Failure | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Three Midnight’s Children as a Magical Realistic Fiction | 第41-54页 |
| ·Politics of Magical Realism | 第41-45页 |
| ·Midnight’s Children and the Widow | 第45-46页 |
| ·Deaths of Dr. Narlika and Hummingbird | 第46-48页 |
| ·Recurrence of the Silver Spittoon | 第48-50页 |
| ·The Many-years-later Mode | 第50-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |
