| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7页 |
| Introduction | 第10-23页 |
| John Edgar Widman and His life | 第10-12页 |
| John Edgar Wideman's works and Criticism | 第12-19页 |
| Theoretical Framework | 第19-21页 |
| Outline | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter One Silence between Father and Son | 第23-37页 |
| 1.1 The Loss of Identity of African American Males | 第24-31页 |
| 1.1.1 Caliban as a Stereotype: Silenced Under White Language | 第24-28页 |
| 1.1.2 Wideman and Cudjoe: Silenced by Identity Dilemma | 第28-31页 |
| 1.2 Lost Sons | 第31-37页 |
| 1.2.1 The Absence of Father's Image | 第32-34页 |
| 1.2.2 Wideman's Son Silenced by Schizophrenia | 第34-37页 |
| Chapter Two Breaking the Silence between Father and Son | 第37-56页 |
| 2.1 Breaking the Silence through Renaming | 第37页 |
| 2.2 Breaking the Silence through Restaging The Tempest | 第37-44页 |
| 2.3 Blues as a Special Mode to Break the Silence | 第44-56页 |
| 2.3.1 Breaking the Silence through Great Time | 第46-50页 |
| 2.3.2 Schizophrenia as a Challenge | 第50-56页 |
| Chapter Three The History of the MOVE as a Collective Ground of Silence | 第56-67页 |
| 3.1 The MOVE as the Abnormal | 第56-58页 |
| 3.2 The MOVE as Historical Exclusions | 第58-61页 |
| 3.3 Revisiting the MOVE through Polyvocality | 第61-67页 |
| Conclusion | 第67-70页 |
| Summary | 第67-69页 |
| Limitations | 第69页 |
| Outlook | 第69-70页 |
| Bibliography | 第70-74页 |
