| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Contexts: Cultural Identity | 第18-31页 |
| 2.1 Cultural Identity: An Overview | 第19-20页 |
| 2.2 Identity in African American Literature | 第20-25页 |
| 2.2.1. Post-coloniality of African American literature | 第22-23页 |
| 2.2.2 Homi Bhabha’s Concepts of“Hybridity” | 第23-25页 |
| 2.3 Identity in African American Intercultural Communication | 第25-28页 |
| 2.3.1 Research of African American Cultural Identity | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3.2 Cultural Contracts Theory | 第26-28页 |
| 2.4 Studies on The Bluest Eye | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter Three Close Reading of African Americans’ Problematic Identity in TBE | 第31-45页 |
| 3.1 Identity Absence as Being-the-Other | 第32-37页 |
| 3.1.1 Between“Us”and“Other” | 第33-35页 |
| 3.1.2 Between“Male”and“Female” | 第35-37页 |
| 3.2 Identity Crisis in Cultural - in - Betweenness | 第37-45页 |
| 3.2.1 Unhomeliness in Betweenness | 第38-40页 |
| 3.2.2 White Mask, Black Soul | 第40-42页 |
| 3.2.3 The Ambivalent Mimicry | 第42-45页 |
| Chapter Four Discussing of African Americans’ Identity Building in TBE | 第45-58页 |
| 4.1 The Building of Hybrid Identity in the“Third Place” | 第46-49页 |
| 4.2 Signing Cultural Contracts | 第49-58页 |
| 4.2.1 Ready-to-Sign Cultural Contract: Fully Assimilative Identity | 第50-53页 |
| 4.2.2 Quasi-Completed Cultural Contract: Temporarily Adaptive Identity | 第53-55页 |
| 4.2.3 Co-Ctreated Cultural Contract: Mutually Validative Identity | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| 5.1 Summary of Analysis Results | 第58-60页 |
| 5.2 Some Issues to be Explored | 第60-61页 |
| Reference | 第61-66页 |
