| 摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4页 |
| Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review and Background | 第10-19页 |
| 1.1 Literature Review of Oates and Her Works | 第10-13页 |
| 1.1.1 Overseas and Domestic Critical Reception | 第10-12页 |
| 1.1.2 Research on The Gravedigger’s Daughter | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Oates’s Life Experience and Its Influence on The Gravedigger’s Daughter | 第13-19页 |
| 1.2.1 The Gravediggers Daughter and Oates’s Maternal Grandmother | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2.2 The Gravedigger and Oates’s Maternal Grandfather | 第15-17页 |
| 1.2.3 Rethinking of the Jewishness of Jewish-Americans | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Loss of Original Identity: Transformation of the Jewish Father | 第19-31页 |
| 2.1 Racial Discrimination: Nazi Persecutions of Jews | 第19-22页 |
| 2.2 Social Exclusion: Social Marginalization from Mainstream Americans | 第22-26页 |
| 2.2.1 Encounter of Social Prejudice | 第23-25页 |
| 2.2.2 Pressure of New Life: Tough and Tiring Digging Work | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3 Alienation of the Jewish Father | 第26-31页 |
| 2.3.1 Disdain for His Native Language | 第26-27页 |
| 2.3.2 Disgust at His Jewish-German Extraction | 第27-29页 |
| 2.3.3 Change of His Original Gender Role | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Pursuit of New Identity: Reconstruction of the Jewish Father | 第31-38页 |
| 3.1 Struggle against Predicament: Improvement of Economic Status | 第32-33页 |
| 3.1.1 Hard-working Attitude | 第32页 |
| 3.1.2 Cost-saving Lifestyle | 第32-33页 |
| 3.2 Scorning for His Family Members: The Improvement of Family Status | 第33-34页 |
| 3.3 Aspiration for General Acceptance of American Society: The Improvement ofSocial Status | 第34-38页 |
| 3.3.1 Adaptation to the Foreign Language | 第36-37页 |
| 3.3.2 Hospitality to American Natives | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter Four Failure of Identity-reconstruction: Destruction of the Jewish Father | 第38-49页 |
| 4.1 Ineradicable Inferior Status in American Society | 第38-41页 |
| 4.2 Conflict between Jewishness and American Identity | 第41-43页 |
| 4.2.1 Internalization of the American Identity and Hostility to American Natives. | 第42-43页 |
| 4.2.2 Growing Antipathy to Both Native and Foreign Language | 第43页 |
| 4.3 Deterioration of Immigrant Life | 第43-49页 |
| 4.3.1 Broken Family Relationship | 第44-46页 |
| 4.3.2 Worsening Living and Working Condition | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Five Presence and Absence of the Jewish Father | 第49-57页 |
| 5.1 Illusion of Presence | 第50-52页 |
| 5.2 Existence of Absence | 第52-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Works Cited | 第59-63页 |
| Achievements | 第63-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64-65页 |
