| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第9-12页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-24页 |
| ·Scholarship on the Two Novels | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Bluest Eye | 第14-15页 |
| ·Sula | 第15-16页 |
| ·Intersectionality and Black Female Writing | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Self as Autonomous or Relational | 第18-19页 |
| ·A Summary of Identity theories in Intercultural Communication Studies | 第19-21页 |
| ·Cultural Identity Theory | 第19-20页 |
| ·Identity Negotiation Theory | 第20页 |
| ·The Communication Theory of Identity | 第20-21页 |
| ·Literary Spatial Studies | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Three A Dialectic of the Home and the Self | 第24-39页 |
| ·Being Homeless at Home | 第24-34页 |
| ·Being at Home and the Negation of the Self | 第34-39页 |
| Chapter Four A Hateful Love: Community and Self-Identity | 第39-50页 |
| ·Self, Community, and Psychic Displacement | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Politics of Being in the Place: Being Egoless while Empowering the Self? | 第42-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| ·Implications | 第51页 |
| ·Limitations | 第51-53页 |
| Reference | 第53-58页 |
