| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·A brief account of Alice Walker | 第10-12页 |
| ·A general introduction to The Color Purple | 第12-13页 |
| ·The purpose and framework of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-20页 |
| ·General introduction on Alice Walker and The Color Purple | 第15-17页 |
| ·Related theories about Bakhtin's Dialogism | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Foundation | 第20-25页 |
| ·Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogism | 第20-22页 |
| ·Responsive dialogue | 第20-21页 |
| ·Language as dialogue | 第21-22页 |
| ·Black women's subjectivity-construction | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Four Dialogical construction of subjectivity in The Color Purple | 第25-43页 |
| ·Epistolary novel and polyphonic structure | 第25-28页 |
| ·The dialogical construction of Celie's subjectivity | 第28-35页 |
| ·Celie's dialogue with God | 第28-29页 |
| ·Celie's dialogue with man | 第29-31页 |
| ·Celie's dialogue with sisterhood | 第31-32页 |
| ·Celie's dialogue with nature | 第32-35页 |
| ·The dialogical construction of Shug's subjectivity | 第35-38页 |
| ·Shug's dialogue with the man | 第35-37页 |
| ·Shug's dialogue with the woman | 第37-38页 |
| ·The dialogical construction of Sofia's subjectivity | 第38-43页 |
| ·Sofia's dialogue with the man | 第38-40页 |
| ·Sofia's dialogue with the white | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第43-46页 |
| ·Major findings | 第43-44页 |
| ·Limitations of the research | 第44页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-49页 |
| Appendix I Publications | 第49页 |
