| ACKOWNLEDGEMENT | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CONTENTS | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-24页 |
| 1.1 Introduction to James Weldon Johnson | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Introduction to The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man | 第13-15页 |
| 1.3 Literature Review | 第15-17页 |
| 1.4 The Concept of Passing | 第17-19页 |
| 1.5 Research Questions and Thesis Statement | 第19-20页 |
| 1.6 Theoretical Framework | 第20-21页 |
| 1.7 Analysis Procedure | 第21-24页 |
| CHAPTER TWO DISRUPTING DETERMINATE IDENTITIES: A PASSING FIGURE | 第24-38页 |
| 2.1 Towards Passing and Transgression | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2 Transgression over the Color line in Music and Dance | 第25-32页 |
| 2.2.1 Hybrid Music—Ragtime | 第26-28页 |
| 2.2.2 Hybrid Dance—Cakewalk | 第28-29页 |
| 2.2.3 ACharacter with Hybrid Musicality—Ex-colored Man | 第29-32页 |
| 2.3 Transgression over the Racial Boundary: Repeated Switching between Blackness and Whiteness | 第32-38页 |
| 2.3.1 Performance of Racial Whiteness | 第33-35页 |
| 2.3.2 Performance of Racial Blackness | 第35-36页 |
| 2.3.3 Performance of both Blackness and Whiteness | 第36-38页 |
| CHAPTER THREE PERFORMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY:APASSING TEXT | 第38-54页 |
| 3.1 Towards Passing and Parody | 第38-39页 |
| 3.2 African-American Autobiography and its Paradigmatic Features | 第39-41页 |
| 3.3 The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man and its Parodic Imitation and Revision ofAfrican American Autobiography | 第41-54页 |
| 3.3.1 Adoption of the Sentimental Conventions | 第41-46页 |
| 3.3.2 Revision of the Escape to Freedom | 第46-50页 |
| 3.3.3 Subversion of the “Heroic Negro” Tradition | 第50-54页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION | 第54-60页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第60-62页 |
