| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9-10页 |
| Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第14-20页 |
| Chapter One:Rooted in the South | 第20-29页 |
| Section One:Finding a Voice from the Place | 第20-23页 |
| Section Two: Welty as a Literary Agrarian | 第23-26页 |
| Section Three: Sense of Rural South Doomed | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter Two: The Place and The Wanderers | 第29-40页 |
| Section One:Wandering as an Alternative to the Rooted Existence | 第30-33页 |
| Section Two:Southern Community's Act and Counteract of Placing | 第33-36页 |
| Section Three:Dichotomy between Place and Wandering Falsified | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter Three:Land's End and Jumping-off Place | 第40-53页 |
| Section One:Variations of "Land's End" | 第41-45页 |
| Section Two:Transcending Southern Regionalist Writing | 第45-53页 |
| Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| Works Cited | 第55-58页 |
