| 中文摘要 | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract in English | 第4-5页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第7-15页 |
| 1.1 Kiran Desai and Her Works | 第7-9页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第9-11页 |
| 1.3 New Historicism | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter 2 History:the Social Text of The Inheritance of Loss | 第15-24页 |
| 2.1 The Issue of Post-colonialism in India:the History of a Nation | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 The Movement of GNLF:the History of "Heroes" | 第17-20页 |
| 2.3 The Emigration Problem in India:the History of Emigrant Communities | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter 3 "histories":the Compressed History in The Inheritance of Loss | 第24-34页 |
| 3.1 The Loss Life of the Judge:"histories" of a Semi-westernized Indian | 第24-27页 |
| 3.2 The Tragic Romance of Gyan and Sai:"histories" of an Indian-Nepalese and a West Bengalese | 第27-30页 |
| 3.3 The Eventful Emigrant Experience of Biju:"histories" of an Illegal Emigrant | 第30-34页 |
| Chapter 4 The New Historical Consciousness of Kiran Desai | 第34-43页 |
| 4.1 Kiran Desai's Critical Attitude towards History:the Supplement of "histories" in History | 第34-37页 |
| 4.2 Kiran Desai's New Historical Consciousness Embodied in the "histories" of Marginalized People:the Abandonment of Narrow Nationalism | 第37-40页 |
| 4.3 Kiran Desai's Hope for "Luminous Light":the Breakthrough of History | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第43-46页 |
| References | 第46-50页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第50-51页 |
