| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第10-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-26页 |
| Chapter One Understanding Toni Morrison | 第26-46页 |
| ·Biographical and Critical Contexts | 第27-34页 |
| ·African-American Culture, American Culture, and Deconstruction | 第34-41页 |
| ·Morrison’s Novels as Texts, Not Works | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter Two Repelling Controlling Images and Reclaiming Names: Retrieval of African-American Values | 第46-71页 |
| ·Manipulation of Controlling Images | 第46-57页 |
| ·Deprivation of Original Names | 第57-64页 |
| ·Transcendence of Imposed Names | 第64-71页 |
| Chapter Three Shattering the Mirror and Racialized Language: Reinscription of African-American Presence | 第71-97页 |
| ·The Danger of the Mirror | 第71-81页 |
| ·Deconstructing Racialized and Patriarchal Language | 第81-88页 |
| ·Recovery of the Language of Ancestors | 第88-97页 |
| Chapter Four Redeeming an Art Form and Conserving the Black Community: Recovery of African-American Culture | 第97-127页 |
| ·Dispossession of an Art Form | 第97-109页 |
| ·Recovery of Black Music | 第109-113页 |
| ·The Black Community as a Chorus | 第113-117页 |
| ·Wandering Motherless Children | 第117-121页 |
| ·Conservation of Community and an Oral Tradition | 第121-127页 |
| Chapter Five Fragmentation, Circularity and Myth: Reconstruction of Black Cultural Identity | 第127-166页 |
| ·Circles and Fragmentation in a World of Difference | 第127-137页 |
| ·Recovery through Storytelling and Story-listening | 第137-144页 |
| ·Myths and Rituals to Counter Dominant Mythologies | 第144-156页 |
| ·Reconstruction of the Myth of Flight | 第156-166页 |
| Conclusion | 第166-169页 |
| Notes | 第169-177页 |
| Works Cited | 第177-181页 |
