| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-6页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| 1.1 A brief introduction to Eudora Welty | 第10-12页 |
| 1.2 Literature review | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Framework of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| 2. Welty's Short Stories Based on Her Snapshots | 第15-30页 |
| 2.1 Welty's creation process | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2 Characterization of African Americans | 第18-26页 |
| 2.2.1 Return of the gaze | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Rebellion against authority | 第21-26页 |
| 2.3 Use of place | 第26-30页 |
| 3. Wetly's Rewritings of Snapshots in Her Short Stories | 第30-41页 |
| 3.1 Backgrounding of African Americans | 第30-32页 |
| 3.2 Foregrounding of the white's violence against the black | 第32-38页 |
| 3.2.1 Ignorance of violence in Welty's snapshots | 第32-34页 |
| 3.2.2 Violence from the white in Welty's fiction | 第34-38页 |
| 3.3 Performance of white guilt | 第38-41页 |
| 4. Welty's Standpoints as a White Female Manipulator | 第41-52页 |
| 4.1 Welty's ambivalence towards race | 第41-44页 |
| 4.1.1 Welty's apolitical writing | 第41-42页 |
| 4.1.2 Welty's racial thoughts | 第42-44页 |
| 4.2 Welty's humanity writing | 第44-47页 |
| 4.3 Welty's limitation as a white female manipulator | 第47-52页 |
| 4.3.1 Stereotyping African Americans | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3.2 Being over-optimistic | 第48-52页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-57页 |
