| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-19页 |
| ·Alice Walker and The Color Purple | 第10-13页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第13-19页 |
| Chapter One Cultural Oppression | 第19-31页 |
| ·Celie’s Adversity under Patriarchal Oppression | 第19-23页 |
| ·Defiant Sofia’s Suffering under Racial Oppression | 第23-26页 |
| ·Olinka Women’s Misery under Multi-Oppression | 第26-31页 |
| Chapter Two Cultural Resistance | 第31-49页 |
| ·Religious Resistance | 第31-39页 |
| ·Shug’s immanent God | 第32-34页 |
| ·Celie’s defiance against God | 第34-37页 |
| ·Nettie and Olinka people’s worship | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Song for Black Women--- Blues | 第39-45页 |
| ·Shug Avery: a blues singer with free spirit | 第40-42页 |
| ·Mary Agnes: a blues singer fighting for identity | 第42-45页 |
| ·Women’s Pants | 第45-49页 |
| Chapter Three Cultural Healing | 第49-67页 |
| ·Achieving Beauty and Unity through Quilting | 第49-55页 |
| ·Black women’s unity in patchwork | 第50-53页 |
| ·Celie’s individual move from fragmentation to wholeness | 第53-55页 |
| ·Support and Strength from Sisterhood | 第55-60页 |
| ·The delivery of help to the troubled black women | 第56-57页 |
| ·Celie’s spiritual independence gained from sisterhood | 第57-60页 |
| ·Black Women and Men in Harmony | 第60-67页 |
| Conclusion | 第67-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-78页 |
| Publications | 第78页 |
