| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| CONTENTS | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-23页 |
| 1.1 Toni Morrison, the Creation and Relevant Reviews of Tar Baby | 第10-15页 |
| 1.2 Theoretical Basis of Narrative Space Study in Literature | 第15-19页 |
| 1.3 Defining Cultural Space in Tar Baby and the Organization of Thesis | 第19-23页 |
| CHAPTER TWO BLACKS IN DIVISION: CONFIGURATION OF CULTURAL SPACES | 第23-40页 |
| 2.1 Division in Psychological Space: Copper Venus vs. Black Inheritor | 第24-30页 |
| 2.1.1 Jadine the Copper Venus | 第25-28页 |
| 2.1.2 Son the Black Inheritor | 第28-30页 |
| 2.2 Geographic Division as Representation | 第30-37页 |
| 2.2.1 House and Forest | 第31-32页 |
| 2.2.2 Bedrooms | 第32-34页 |
| 2.2.3 Working Places | 第34-37页 |
| 2.3 Oppositional Perspective in Divided Space | 第37-40页 |
| CHAPTER THREE BLACKS ON THE MOVE: EXPERIENCES IN CULTURAL SPACES | 第40-55页 |
| 3.1 Journeys of Rescue | 第41-51页 |
| 3.1.1 New York: A Temporary Nest | 第41-45页 |
| 3.1.2 Eloe: The Place of the Black | 第45-48页 |
| 3.1.3 Back to New York | 第48-51页 |
| 3.2 Compressed Time in Shifting Spaces | 第51-55页 |
| CHPATER FOUR BLACKS OUT OF THE ENCIRCLEMENT:RECONSTRCTUION OF A BLACK CULTURAL SPACE | 第55-67页 |
| 4.1 Spatial Reorganization as Subversion to Hegemony | 第56-59页 |
| 4.2 Folk Narratives as Discursive Construction of Space | 第59-63页 |
| 4.3 Open Ending as Defiance against Closure of Narrative Circle | 第63-67页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第67-69页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第69-74页 |
| 在学期间发表论文清单 | 第74页 |
