| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-19页 |
| 1. Alice Walker and Her Writing Career | 第9页 |
| 2. A Brief Review of the Critical Responses to Alice Walker's The Color Purple | 第9-13页 |
| 3. Relevant Critiques on Interconnections between The Color Purple and Other Literary Works | 第13-17页 |
| ·Linda Abbandonato's "A View from 'Elsewhere':Subversive Sexuality and the Rewriting of the Heroine's Story in The Color Purple" | 第13-14页 |
| ·Apryl Denny's "Alice Walker's Womanist Reading of Samuel Richardson's Pamela in the Color Purple" | 第14-16页 |
| ·Martha J. Cutter's "Philomela Speaks:Alice Walker's Revisioning of Rape Archetypes in The Color Purple" | 第16-17页 |
| 4. The Layout of this Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter One The Intertexuality between The Color Purple and the PhilomelaMyth | 第19-30页 |
| 1. Gynocriticism and Intertexuality | 第19-21页 |
| 2. The Intertextuality Embodied in the Plots | 第21-23页 |
| 3. The Intertextuality Embodied in the Archetype of Rape | 第23-27页 |
| 4. The Intertextuality Embodied in the Imageries | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter Two An Alternative Ideology | 第30-38页 |
| 1. The Womanist Rewriting of the Mythic Plot | 第31-33页 |
| 2. The Womanist Communicative Process | 第33-34页 |
| 3. The Womanist Sexual Expression | 第34-35页 |
| 4. The Womanist Filling of Maternity and Sisterhood | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter Three An Alternative Narration | 第38-47页 |
| 1. The Womanist Narrative Point of View in The Color Purple | 第38-40页 |
| 2. The Womanist Narrative Structure in The Color Purple | 第40-41页 |
| 3. The Womanist Methodology of Language in The Color Purple | 第41-47页 |
| Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| References | 第49-52页 |
