| 内容提要 | 第1-5页 |
| Synopsis | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-17页 |
| Introduction | 第17-23页 |
| Chapter One Historical and Social Context of A Mercy | 第23-34页 |
| ·Historical and Social Context of A Mercy | 第24-29页 |
| ·Time, Places, and Characters | 第24-27页 |
| ·A General Situation of Races in 1680s’ North America | 第27-29页 |
| ·Historical and Social Context of the Publication of A Mercy | 第29-34页 |
| ·Barack Obama’s Nomination and the Publication of the Novel | 第29-31页 |
| ·Morrison’s Writing Intentions | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Two The Narrative Progression in A Mercy | 第34-47页 |
| ·Instabilities — the Textual Dynamics in the Novel | 第35-41页 |
| ·The Global Instability in the Novel | 第35-38页 |
| ·The Local Instabilities in the Novel | 第38-41页 |
| ·Tensions — The Readerly Dynamics in the Novel | 第41-47页 |
| ·Four Audiences and Tensions | 第41-43页 |
| ·Interpretation of Tensions in the Novel | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Three Narrative Judgments in A Mercy | 第47-59页 |
| ·Three Judgments in the Novel | 第47-55页 |
| ·Interpretive judgments of the Abandonment Event | 第47-50页 |
| ·Ethical Judgments in the Novel | 第50-53页 |
| ·Aesthetic Judgments in the Novel | 第53-55页 |
| ·The Relationships among the Three Judgments | 第55-59页 |
| ·The Relationship between Interpretive Judgments and Ethical Judgments in the Novel | 第55-57页 |
| ·The Relationship between Ethical Judgment and Aesthetic Judgment in the Novel | 第57-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-61页 |
| Works Cited | 第61-63页 |
| 导师及作者简介 | 第63-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65页 |
