| Abstract (in English) | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第10-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| 1. The Writer and His works | 第12-15页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第15-16页 |
| 3. Research Objectives and Significance | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter One Theoretical Background and the Issues Concerned | 第18-40页 |
| ·A General Introduction to Postcolonial Studies | 第18-20页 |
| ·Concept of the Oppressed | 第20-26页 |
| ·The Other | 第20-23页 |
| ·The Subaltern | 第23-26页 |
| ·Representation and Resistance | 第26-40页 |
| ·Problem of Representation | 第28-32页 |
| ·J. M. Coetzee's Way of Representation | 第32-40页 |
| ·Silence as a Way of Resistance | 第32-35页 |
| ·Coetzee's Feelings of Complicity and His Way of Resistance | 第35-40页 |
| Chapter Two Silent Images of the Oppressed in Coetzee's Works | 第40-52页 |
| ·Tongue-cut Friday | 第40-43页 |
| ·Connotation of Mutilation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Mutilation as Seeming Obedience | 第42-43页 |
| ·Harelip Michael K | 第43-48页 |
| ·Lack of Patronymic and Disfigurement | 第44-45页 |
| ·Brutality of the State Machine and Other Oppressive Forces | 第45-48页 |
| ·Silent Lurie and Lucy in Disgrace | 第48-52页 |
| ·Lurie—the Marginalized Intellectual under New Situation | 第48-50页 |
| ·Lucy—the Doubly Oppressed Female | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Three Silence As a Way of Resistance—the Oppressed Characters' Way of Fighting Back | 第52-75页 |
| ·Friday's Silence | 第52-57页 |
| ·Silence as Refusal | 第53-55页 |
| ·Drawing as Subversion | 第55-57页 |
| ·Michael K's Gardening and Silence | 第57-64页 |
| ·Gardening as Resistance | 第58-60页 |
| ·Silence as Subversion | 第60-64页 |
| ·Lurie and Lucy's Silent Resistance | 第64-75页 |
| ·Lurie's Silent Resistance | 第65-70页 |
| ·Silent Refusal to Make Compromise | 第65-68页 |
| ·Silent Ways of Salvation and Resistance | 第68-70页 |
| ·Lucy's Silent Resistance | 第70-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| Notes | 第77-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-84页 |
