| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Contents | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第15-18页 |
| ·Studies on the Image of the Heroine Mary Turner | 第15-16页 |
| ·Studies on the Writing Skills | 第16页 |
| ·Studies Relating to Colonialism | 第16页 |
| ·Summary | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Framework | 第18-24页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Postcolonialism | 第18-19页 |
| ·Frantz Fanon and Michel Foucault's Postcolonial Concepts | 第19-20页 |
| ·Said and his Orientalism | 第20-21页 |
| ·Homi K.Bhabha and His Postcolonial Ideas | 第21-23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter Three The Colonial Myth Composed by the White | 第24-35页 |
| ·The Image of the Colonizers in the Colonial Myth | 第24-31页 |
| ·Mary Turner's Biased Ideas Towards the Natives | 第26-28页 |
| ·Charlie Slatter's Prejudicial Thoughts Towards the Natives | 第28-30页 |
| ·Other Depictions of the Mythical Colonialism in the Novel | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Image of the Colonized in the Colonial Myth | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Poor Life of the Natives | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Deficiencies of the Natives | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter Four The Interrogation of the Colonial Myth | 第35-49页 |
| ·The Self Decline of the Colonial Myth in the White Community | 第35-39页 |
| ·The Changed Policy of the Government | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Failure of Dick Turner | 第37-38页 |
| ·Fear of the Fact of the Murder | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Civilization and Resistance of the Natives | 第39-47页 |
| ·The Civilization and Revolt of the Colonized Group | 第39-41页 |
| ·Moses's Obedience and Resistance under the Colonial Rule | 第41-47页 |
| ·Moses's Shining Human Nature | 第41-44页 |
| ·Moses's Resistance to the White Culture | 第44-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Five The Collapse of the Colonial Edifice—A Sad Song for Colonialism | 第49-57页 |
| ·The Wailing for the Colonial Rule | 第49-53页 |
| ·The Disillusion of the Colonial Myth | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Symbolic Meaning of the Title The Grass Is Singing | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Recovery of the Ethnic Consciousness | 第53-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-62页 |
| 在校期间的研究成果及发表的学术论文 | 第62页 |
