| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第12-24页 |
| 1.1 A Brief Introduction to N. Scott Momaday | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2 Aims / Research Question(s) | 第14页 |
| 1.3 A Brief Review of Relevant Literature | 第14-17页 |
| 1.4 Theoretical Frame Work | 第17-21页 |
| 1.5 Thesis Structure | 第21-24页 |
| CHAPTER TWO POWER RELATIONS BETWEEN AND WITHIN THE TWOSPACES | 第24-40页 |
| 2.1 Two Main Spaces as Binary Oppositions | 第25-30页 |
| 2.1.1 The City Los Angeles as the Superior | 第26-28页 |
| 2.1.2 The Rural Reservation Land as the Inferior | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2 Power Relations within the City as a Panopticon | 第30-37页 |
| 2.2.1 A Brief Introduction to“Panopticon” | 第30-32页 |
| 2.2.2 The White as the Supervisor | 第32-35页 |
| 2.2.3 Well-Behaved Indians as the Supervised | 第35-37页 |
| 2.3 Spatial Transformation: Power Relations in the Reservation Land | 第37-40页 |
| 2.3.1 Spatial Transformation and the Imposed Religious Conversion | 第37-38页 |
| 2.3.2 The Silenced Indians under White Hegemony | 第38-40页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE SUBVERSION AND RESISTANCE OF THE INDIANSIN THE THIRDSPACE | 第40-54页 |
| 3.1 The Subversion of Power Relations between two Spaces and two Races | 第41-46页 |
| 3.1.1 Repetitive Description of the Reservation Land from Three IndianCharacters | 第42-44页 |
| 3.1.2 Momaday’s Opposition to the Relocation Act | 第44-46页 |
| 3.2 The Resistance of the Indian in the Thirdspace | 第46-54页 |
| 3.2.1 Abel’s Maintenance of the Indian Traditions | 第46-47页 |
| 3.2.2 The Indian Abel’s Romantic Affairs with two White Women | 第47-50页 |
| 3.2.3 The Practice of Indian Ceremonies | 第50-54页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RECLAIMING INDIAN IDENTITY IN THE THIRDSPACE | 第54-66页 |
| 4.1 The Lost Identity of the Indians under Repression in the City Los Angeles | 第55-58页 |
| 4.1.1 Behavioral Insideness: Tosamah’s Confused Identity in the City | 第56-57页 |
| 4.1.2 Existential Outsideness: The Lost Identities of Ben Benally and Abel inthe City | 第57-58页 |
| 4.2 The Reconstruction of the Indian Cultural Identity through Ceremonies ofResistance | 第58-66页 |
| 4.2.1 Tosahma: The Way to Rainy Mountain | 第59-60页 |
| 4.2.2 Benally: The Chanting of the Song House Made of Dawn | 第60-62页 |
| 4.2.3 Abel: Running in the Dawn | 第62-66页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第66-68页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第68-70页 |
