| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter One Development of Morrison's Historical View | 第15-25页 |
| ·Selecting a Usable Past | 第15-18页 |
| ·Questioning the Totalizing History | 第18-23页 |
| ·A Hybrid Historical View | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Morrison's Deconstruction of Grand Narrative | 第25-39页 |
| ·Exposure of the Relation between Power and Truth | 第26-30页 |
| ·Narrator's Self-reflexivity in Morrison's "Writerly Text" | 第30-33页 |
| ·Deconstructive Effects of Myths and Allusions | 第33-37页 |
| ·Morrison's Refutation of the Totalizing Truth | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Morrison in Afro-American Tradition | 第39-54页 |
| ·Inheriting Afro-American Tradition | 第40-50页 |
| ·Ancestors in Morrison's Writings | 第40-41页 |
| ·Inverted Concept of Time | 第41-43页 |
| ·Magical and Supernatural Elements | 第43-45页 |
| ·Myths and Folklores in Morrison's "Speakerly Text" | 第45-50页 |
| ·Morrison's Reconstruction of Black History | 第50-51页 |
| ·Inheritance and Innovation in Morrison's Historical View | 第51-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| Bibliography | 第57-60页 |