| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-29页 |
| 1.1 Brief Introduction of Toni Morrison and Her Novel God Help the Child | 第11-15页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第15-23页 |
| 1.2.1 Literature review of God Help the Child abroad | 第15-17页 |
| 1.2.2 Literature review of God Help the Child at home | 第17-20页 |
| 1.2.3 Literature review of the body and Morrison’s works | 第20-23页 |
| 1.3 The Body Theory of Merleau-Ponty | 第23-26页 |
| 1.4 The Significance and Structure of This Thesis | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Two THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL BODY: AWARENESS OF BLACK COMPLEXION | 第29-41页 |
| 2.1 The Traditional Evaluation of Black Complexion: Ugliness and Inferiority | 第30-34页 |
| 2.1.1 The ugliness of the black: Racism from white people | 第30-32页 |
| 2.1.2 Self-Alienation and negation of black people: Inferiority of the black | 第32-34页 |
| 2.2 The New Black Complexion: Beauty and Equality | 第34-37页 |
| 2.2.1 Subject self-consciousness: Awakening of self | 第34-35页 |
| 2.2.2 Raising social position: Awareness of dark beauty | 第35-37页 |
| 2.3 The Reasons of Different Attitudes to Black People | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Three THE COGNITIVE BODY: BODY AND PHYSICAL SELF CONSTRUCTION | 第41-47页 |
| 3.1 Bride’s Physical Changes | 第41-44页 |
| 3.1.1 The disappearance of body characteristics | 第41-43页 |
| 3.1.2 The return of body characteristics | 第43-44页 |
| 3.2 Booker’s Mark Specialty: Scarred Tattoos and Healed Music | 第44-47页 |
| 3.2.1 Tattoo: Healing the childhood trauma | 第44-45页 |
| 3.2.2 Music: Getting inner healing | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Four THE NARRATIVE BODY: NEW HOPE AND LIBERATION | 第47-57页 |
| 4.1 Atonement and Pursuit | 第48-51页 |
| 4.1.1 Sweetness: Getting rid of the mask and realizing inner redemption | 第48-49页 |
| 4.1.2 Bride: Pursing the inner release | 第49-51页 |
| 4.2 Loneliness and Liberation from loneliness | 第51-57页 |
| 4.2.1 Booker: Speaking out of haunted trauma | 第51-53页 |
| 4.2.2 Rain: Pouring out her pains and getting relieved | 第53-57页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第57-61页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第61-67页 |
| 附录：作者在攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第67页 |
