| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第6-11页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第11-12页 |
| Abstract in English | 第12-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-21页 |
| Chapter One The Thorns of Fragments | 第21-35页 |
| 1．1 Historical and Social Background for the Novel | 第21-23页 |
| 1．2 Meridian's Sense of Guilt for Having Failed to be a Daughter and a Mother and to Fulfill the Black Motherhood | 第23-28页 |
| 1．3 Meridian's Sense of Guilt for Having Failed as a Revolutionary | 第28-31页 |
| 1．4 The Effect of the Senses of Guilt | 第31-32页 |
| 1．5 The Black and the Indian Peoples' Sense of Guilt for Having Failed to Continue Their Heritage | 第32-35页 |
| Chapter Two The Quest of Wholeness | 第35-44页 |
| 2．1 The Role of the South in the Quest of Wholeness | 第35-36页 |
| 2．2 Broadening the Definition of Mother | 第36-39页 |
| 2．3 Discovering the Black Tradition: the Black Music & Black Church | 第39-40页 |
| 2．4 Inheriting Maternal Heritage: Black Women's Creativity & Ecstasy | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Three The Quilting of Fragments | 第44-52页 |
| 3．1 A Brief Introduction to Quilting | 第44-45页 |
| 3．2 Quilting as the Motifs of Fragmentation and Wholeness | 第45-47页 |
| 3．3 Quilting as the Links between the Past and the Present | 第47-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Works Cited | 第54-55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-57页 |
