| 英文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter One Mona in the Promised Land and American Initiation Story | 第13-24页 |
| ·Gish Jen and Mona in the Promised Land | 第13-17页 |
| ·Historical Background | 第13页 |
| ·Gish Jen and Her Literary Career | 第13-16页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Mona in the Promised Land | 第16-17页 |
| ·American Initiation Story: American Version of Bildungsroman | 第17-24页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Bildungsroman | 第17-19页 |
| ·Initiation Story: American Version of Bildungsroman | 第19-21页 |
| ·General Characteristics of American Initiation Story | 第21-22页 |
| ·Mona in the Promised Land as an Initiation Story | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two An American Initiation Story: Genre Analysis of Mona in the Promised Land | 第24-43页 |
| ·Plot Pattern and the Archetype | 第24-28页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Theories of Archetype | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Archetype of the Plot Pattern in American Initiation Story | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Plot Pattern of Mona in the Promised Land | 第27-28页 |
| ·Mona the Heroine and the Archetype | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Archetype of the Heroes (Heroines) in Initiation Story | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Heroine Mona | 第30-32页 |
| ·Initiation Guides | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Positive Guide — Rabbi Horowitz | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Negative Guide — Helen the Mother | 第35-37页 |
| ·Initiation Turning Point and Epiphany | 第37-43页 |
| ·Awakening of Sexual Awareness | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Failure of "Camp Gugelstein" | 第40-41页 |
| ·Leaving Home | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Three Initiation Theme Embodied by Mona's Struggle for a Fitting Identity | 第43-62页 |
| ·Identity and Cultural Identity | 第43-48页 |
| ·Meaning of Identity and Cultural Identity | 第43-45页 |
| ·Identity Formation and Cultural Identity Formation | 第45-48页 |
| ·Mona's Identity Formation | 第48-62页 |
| ·The Initial Stage | 第49-53页 |
| ·The Moratorium Stage | 第53-58页 |
| ·The Achieved Stage | 第58-62页 |
| Chapter Four Peculiarity of the Initiation Theme: Delivering the Message of Multiculturalism | 第62-71页 |
| ·American Multiculturalism | 第62-64页 |
| ·Mona in the Promised Land: a Shining Example of a Multicultural Message | 第64-71页 |
| ·Identity as a Matter of Choice in America's Multicultural Land | 第64-67页 |
| ·Existence of Racism Reflecting the Incompleteness of Multiculturalism | 第67-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| Works Cited | 第73-77页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第77页 |
