| Abstract | 第1-15页 |
| 摘要 | 第15-19页 |
| Introduction | 第19-27页 |
| Chapter One Healing the Wound through Music: Aesthetic Sensitivity and Cultural Conservation | 第27-54页 |
| 1. Black Music as a Historic Process of Acculturation and Cultural Identification | 第30-36页 |
| 2. Morrison's Music Aesthetics | 第36-54页 |
| ·Aesthetic Sensitivity and Identity | 第39-47页 |
| ·Collective Community Expression | 第47-54页 |
| Chapter Two Morrison's Spirituals: a Home, a Resting Place in the Wilderness | 第54-96页 |
| 1. In the Spiritual Wilderness | 第55-92页 |
| ·Loss of Subjectivity | 第58-74页 |
| ·Loss of Female Subjectivity | 第58-69页 |
| ·Loss of Male Subjectivity | 第69-74页 |
| ·Loss of Black Identity | 第74-89页 |
| ·The Devaluation of the Black Self-image | 第74-79页 |
| ·The Absence of Emotional Commitment | 第79-85页 |
| ·The Internalization of the Oppression | 第85-88页 |
| ·The Abandonment of Black Culture | 第88-89页 |
| ·Black Identity Gone Wild | 第89页 |
| ·Loss of Black Communal Identity | 第89-92页 |
| 2. A Spiritual Home | 第92-96页 |
| Chapter Three Morrison's Blues: Wailing through Pain and Turmoil to a Release | 第96-116页 |
| 1. Pains and Turmoil in Blacks' Experiences | 第96-108页 |
| ·Consequence of Slavery | 第97-98页 |
| ·Misnaming and Naming as a Manipulative Instrument | 第98-101页 |
| ·Double Consciousness | 第101-103页 |
| ·Commercial Society | 第103-106页 |
| ·Great Migration and Culture Orphanage | 第106-108页 |
| 2. Release of Pains | 第108-116页 |
| ·Violent Release of the Pains | 第109-114页 |
| ·Wholesome Release of the Pains | 第114-116页 |
| Chapter Four Morrison's Jazz: Reconstituting Identity through Cultural Hybridity | 第116-146页 |
| 1. Re-inheriting Black Cultural Heritage and Awakening Black Cultural Consciousness | 第120-126页 |
| ·Black Women as Culture Bearers | 第121-125页 |
| ·Black Women as Hope-bringers | 第125-126页 |
| 2. Fusing African Culture and Western Culture: the Southern Past and the Northern Present | 第126-131页 |
| 3. Creating Future Out of Shadows of History: New Cultural Identity and Traumatized Black Identity | 第131-135页 |
| 4. Participating in Communications and Bonds: Sisterhood, Community and Fraternity | 第135-142页 |
| ·Sisterhood | 第136-138页 |
| ·Community and Communal Healing | 第138-140页 |
| ·Fraternity | 第140-142页 |
| 5. Reconstructing Identity through Transcending Given Names | 第142-146页 |
| Chapter Five Music Reflected in Morrison's Narratives | 第146-169页 |
| 1. On the Structure Level | 第146-164页 |
| ·The Blues Narrative | 第147-148页 |
| ·Call-and-response | 第148-149页 |
| ·Improvisation | 第149-154页 |
| ·Repetition | 第154-156页 |
| ·Jam Session | 第156-160页 |
| ·The Cutting Contest | 第160-161页 |
| ·Open Ending | 第161-164页 |
| 2. On the Language Level | 第164-169页 |
| Conclusion | 第169-177页 |
| Bibliography | 第177-194页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第194-196页 |
| 在读期间发表文章 | 第196-197页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第197页 |
