| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 2 American Innocence as a Liberal Myth | 第13-20页 |
| 2.1 Components of the Innocence Idea-complex | 第13-16页 |
| 2.2 Stories Concerning Loss of Innocence | 第16-18页 |
| 2.3 The Embodiment of Innocence in Literature | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 3 Black Innocence Constructed by Toni Morrison | 第20-28页 |
| 3.1 Black Authenticity Free from White Defilement and Expectations | 第21-23页 |
| 3.2 Black Funkiness Capable of Embracing All experience | 第23-25页 |
| 3.3 Uncontaminated Ideal as an Emotional Utopia | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter 4 Beloved Invoking a New Kind of Black Innocence | 第28-38页 |
| 4.1 Sensualizing and Glorifying the World of All the Senses | 第29-30页 |
| 4.2 Characters Deprived of the Sense of Self-hood and the Ability to Love | 第30-34页 |
| 4.3 Beloved as a Racial and National Ghost: the Importance of Memory | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter 5 Sethe’s Confrontation with Her“Innocent”Crime | 第38-48页 |
| 5.1 Sethe’s Tribulation as the Result of Infanticide | 第38-41页 |
| 5.2 Sethe’s Transmutation with the Help of the Community | 第41-43页 |
| 5.3 Life and One’s Self Needing to Be Nurtured: the Power of Self-acceptance andSelf-love | 第43-48页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第48-50页 |
| Works Cited | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第55页 |
