| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-15页 |
| 1.1 An Introduction to Toni Morrison and Sula | 第11-13页 |
| 1.2 The Significance and Structure of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第15-27页 |
| 2.1 Research on Sula at Home and Abroad | 第15-19页 |
| 2.2 Theoretical Foundation | 第19-27页 |
| 2.2.1 Sartre's existentialism | 第19-22页 |
| 2.2.2 Beauvoir's existentialist feminism | 第22-27页 |
| Chapter Three BLACK WOMEN'S SURVIVAL SITUATION AS THE OTHER | 第27-42页 |
| 3.1 The Oppression of Patriarchy | 第27-32页 |
| 3.1.1 Social secular concepts | 第27-29页 |
| 3.1.2 The "femininity" | 第29-32页 |
| 3.2 The Strained Relationship Between Genders | 第32-37页 |
| 3.2.1 The absence of father role | 第32-34页 |
| 3.2.2 Inequality of romantic relationship | 第34-37页 |
| 3.3 The Disunity of Female Relationship | 第37-42页 |
| 3.3.1 Alienation of mother-daughter relationship | 第37-40页 |
| 3.3.2 Breaking up of sisterhood | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Four BLACK WOMEN'S SELF-REDEMPTION | 第42-56页 |
| 4.1 Other Female Characters' Self-deception: Bad Faith | 第42-46页 |
| 4.1.1 The narcissistic woman—Helene | 第43-44页 |
| 4.1.2 The woman in love—Nel | 第44-45页 |
| 4.1.3 The accomplice of patriarchy—Eva | 第45-46页 |
| 4.2 Sula's Self-pursuit: Good Faith | 第46-52页 |
| 4.2.1 Sula's indifferent attitude towards traditional morality | 第47-48页 |
| 4.2.2 Sula's radical attitude towards love and marriage | 第48-49页 |
| 4.2.3 Sula's experimental attitude towards life and death | 第49-51页 |
| 4.2.4 Sula's impact on the Bottom community | 第51-52页 |
| 4.3 Toward Liberation—The Path Getting out of The Other Position | 第52-56页 |
| 4.3.1 Society support | 第52-53页 |
| 4.3.2 Gender harmony | 第53-54页 |
| 4.3.3 Women's "project" | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第56-58页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第58-59页 |
