| Abstract | 第5-17页 |
| 摘要 | 第18-28页 |
| Introduction | 第28-49页 |
| Chapter One African Traditions: Cultural Influence of African Religion,Cosmology, Folklore and Epic on Toni Morrison'sWorks | 第49-100页 |
| 1. Geographical and Cultural Locations of African Traditions inMorrison's Works | 第51-61页 |
| 2. An Ohio Griote's Song of African Epic Tradition | 第61-67页 |
| 3. Morrison's Complex in African Cosmological Beliefs | 第67-77页 |
| 4. Riding the Wings of African Ancestral Cultures and Traditions | 第77-89页 |
| 5. Placement and Displacement of the African Community Value | 第89-100页 |
| Chapter Two African American Traditions: African American Folk Influenceof Myth, Naming, Folk, and Orality on Toni Morrison'sWorks | 第100-160页 |
| 1. Myth, Truth, and Flying Myth in Toni Morrison's Novels | 第101-120页 |
| 2. African American Cultural Traditions in the Meaning of Names | 第120-132页 |
| 3. Morrison's Creative Inheritance of African American Folk Tradition | 第132-141页 |
| 4. Within and Beyond the African American Folk Tradition | 第141-148页 |
| 5. The Charm of African American Supernatural | 第148-160页 |
| Chapter Three European Traditions: Presentation of Aesthetic Differenceand Black Aesthetics in Toni Morrison's Works | 第160-214页 |
| 1. Black Aesthetics and the African American Novel | 第161-170页 |
| 2. Toni Morrison's Ideas about Beauty | 第170-179页 |
| 3. The Black English Oral Tradition in Toni Morrison's Works | 第179-199页 |
| 4. Ode to Language | 第199-206页 |
| 5. Apotropaic Imagination and Black Persephone | 第206-214页 |
| Conclusion | 第214-220页 |
| Bibliography | 第220-236页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第236-238页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第238页 |
