| Abstract | 第3页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-7页 |
| Introduction | 第7-13页 |
| 1. About Olaudah Equiano and his Works | 第7-8页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第8-11页 |
| 3. Purpose and Significance of the Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| 4. Structure of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One The Interrelation between Autobiographies and Identity | 第13-19页 |
| 1.1 The Genesis of Autobiography as a Genre | 第13-16页 |
| 1.1.1 An Overview of Autobiographies in Western Culture | 第14-15页 |
| 1.1.2 The Functions of Autobiography in Different Periods | 第15-16页 |
| 1.1.3 Definitional Issues of Autobiography | 第16页 |
| 1.2 Definitional Issues of Identity | 第16-18页 |
| 1.3 Identity Construction through the Writing of Autobiography | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two The Problematic Notion of Authenticity | 第19-25页 |
| 2.1 The Authenticity of Narrator’s Identity | 第19-21页 |
| 2.1.1 The Authenticity of Narrator’s Birthplace | 第19-20页 |
| 2.1.2 The Change of Narrator’s Names | 第20-21页 |
| 2.2 The Authenticity of Narrative (Equiano’s Text) for Identity Construction | 第21-25页 |
| 2.2.1 From the Perspective of the Author | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2.2 From the Perspective of the Reader | 第22-23页 |
| 2.2.3 From the Perspective of the Publisher | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three The entangled identities | 第25-41页 |
| 3.1 Racial Identity | 第25-30页 |
| 3.1.1 Blackness | 第26-28页 |
| 3.1.2 Whiteness | 第28-29页 |
| 3.1.3 Contradictions between Blackness and Whiteness | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2 Religious Identity | 第30-35页 |
| 3.2.1 The Heathen Childhood | 第31-32页 |
| 3.2.2 The Literate British Christian | 第32-34页 |
| 3.2.3 Contradictions between Different Religious Identities | 第34-35页 |
| 3.3 National Identity | 第35-41页 |
| 3.3.1 African | 第35-37页 |
| 3.3.2 The British Citizen | 第37-38页 |
| 3.3.3 Contradictions between Different National Identities | 第38-41页 |
| Conclusion | 第41-43页 |
| Rreferences | 第43-45页 |
