| Abstract in Chinese | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| ·Toni Morrison as a black woman writer | 第9-12页 |
| ·A Literary review of Beloved | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter Two The Loss and Distortion of Maternal Love under Slavery | 第16-33页 |
| ·Tony Morrison's Feminist thought on African-American motherhood | 第16-19页 |
| ·Unspeakable past of slave mothers in Beloved | 第19-33页 |
| ·Baby Suggs—a submissive mother | 第20-24页 |
| ·Sethe—a rebellious mother | 第24-33页 |
| Chapter Three The Empowerment of Baby Suggs' Extended Maternal Love | 第33-39页 |
| ·Preaching of self love in the Clearing | 第33-36页 |
| ·Becoming tar of the race | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Four The Empowerment of Sethe's Maternal Love towards Denver | 第39-50页 |
| ·Barriers to understanding the mother's love and stories | 第40-43页 |
| ·Sethe's repression of the "unspeakable" past | 第40-42页 |
| ·Denver's refusal of her mother's stories | 第42-43页 |
| ·Access to mother's past and growing in maternal love | 第43-50页 |
| ·Beloved bridges the gap between Denver and Sethe | 第44-47页 |
| ·Completing the construction of an independent identity in Community | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第54-55页 |
| Appendix | 第55页 |
