| 中文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter one Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter two Loss of Identity | 第14-28页 |
| A.Predicament of Emotional Life | 第15-20页 |
| 1.Crippling Marriage | 第15-17页 |
| 2.Love with Dishonesty and Deception | 第17-18页 |
| 3.Free Women’s Dependence on Men | 第18-20页 |
| B.Professional Anxieties | 第20-24页 |
| 1.Suspicion on Fiction and Truth | 第20-21页 |
| 2.Problem of Blocked Creativity | 第21-23页 |
| 3.Mental Breakdown of the Writer | 第23-24页 |
| C.Disillusionment with the Political Ideal | 第24-28页 |
| 1.Frustration of the African Left-liberal Activists | 第24-26页 |
| 2.Disappointment with the Two Political Ideologies | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Three Identity-seeking | 第28-47页 |
| A.Quest for Identity as a Free Woman | 第28-37页 |
| 1.Success of Being a Mother | 第28-30页 |
| 2.Resolving the Dilemma of Mistress and Sisterhood | 第30-32页 |
| 3.Retrospection on the Identity as a Woman | 第32-37页 |
| B.Pursuit of Identity as a Writer | 第37-43页 |
| 1.Split Selves in Dreams | 第37-40页 |
| 2.Recourse to Notebooks | 第40-41页 |
| 3.Freedom about Reality | 第41-43页 |
| C.Disenchantment with the Political Ideal | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Four Reinvigoration and Regeneration | 第47-59页 |
| A.Interdependence between Male and Female | 第47-51页 |
| 1.Two Kinds of Enlightenment | 第47-49页 |
| 2.Mutual Support of Man and Free Woman | 第49-50页 |
| 3.Real Free Women | 第50-51页 |
| B.Recovery from the Writer’s Block | 第51-54页 |
| 1.Conquest of the Barrier of Language | 第51-52页 |
| 2.Reconciliation with Reality | 第52-53页 |
| 3.Resuming the Vocation as a Writer | 第53-54页 |
| C.Reconstruction of the New Identity | 第54-59页 |
| 1.Self-definition by Quest of Wholeness | 第55-56页 |
| 2.Integration into a New Identity | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-64页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第64-65页 |
