| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter One Brief Analysis of the “Beat Generation” | 第15-24页 |
| ·Social background of the “Beat Generation” | 第15-18页 |
| ·Economic prosperity | 第15-16页 |
| ·Spiritual poverty | 第16-18页 |
| ·Characteristics of the “Beat Generation” | 第18-24页 |
| ·Emergence and development of the “Beat Generation” | 第18-21页 |
| ·The “Beat Generation”in On the Road | 第21-24页 |
| Chapter Two Loss of Cultural Identity | 第24-39页 |
| ·Factors contributing to the loss of cultural identity | 第24-29页 |
| ·Brief introduction of cultural identity | 第24-25页 |
| ·Contemporary social diseases of white-centered culture | 第25-28页 |
| ·Crisis of cultural identity of the “Beat Generation” | 第28-29页 |
| ·Manifestation of the loss of identity | 第29-36页 |
| ·Rejection of the mainstream culture | 第29-32页 |
| ·Counter-cultural approaches of the “Beat Generation” | 第32-36页 |
| ·Indulgence in oriental Zen Buddhism | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter Three Quest for Cultural Identity | 第39-54页 |
| ·Historical incitation for the choices of “the other” | 第39-43页 |
| ·Test of the so-called “American dream” | 第39-41页 |
| ·Choice of the west for cultural identity | 第41-43页 |
| ·Choices of “the other” | 第43-54页 |
| ·Friendship with “beat”friends | 第43-46页 |
| ·Causes for the choice of marginal cultures | 第46-50页 |
| ·Black paradise of the white “Negroes” | 第50-54页 |
| Chapter Four Disillusionment with the Quest for Cultural Identity | 第54-63页 |
| ·Illusive paradise of the white “Negroes” | 第54-59页 |
| ·Disappointment with the blacks and the west | 第54-56页 |
| ·Ignorance of the black culture | 第56-58页 |
| ·Exclusiveness of the white-centered culture | 第58-59页 |
| ·Spiritual pilgrimage of the “Beat Generation” | 第59-63页 |
| ·Vagrancies and regressions | 第59-61页 |
| ·Restoration of white identity | 第61-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-68页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第68-69页 |
| Publications | 第69页 |
