| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One The Background and Social Significance of the Narrator's Identity Crisis | 第15-27页 |
| 1.1 The background of the narrator's identity | 第15-19页 |
| 1.2 The social significance of the narrator's identity crisis | 第19-27页 |
| Chapter Two Various Identity Crises the Narrator Experiences | 第27-40页 |
| 2.1 As a college student in the South | 第27-30页 |
| 2.2 As a worker at the Liberty Paints plant and then a patient at the factory hospital | 第30-33页 |
| 2.3 As a spokesman for the Brotherhood | 第33-37页 |
| 2.4 As an invisible man living underground | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three The Reasons of the Narrator's Identity Crisis | 第40-59页 |
| 3.1 Racism—the major reason of the narrator's identity crisis | 第40-48页 |
| 3.2 Influence of different ideologies and different people | 第48-54页 |
| 3.3 The narrator's ever-increasing self-realization | 第54-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-64页 |
| Notes | 第64-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第69-70页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表论文目录 | 第70-71页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情‘况表 | 第71页 |