| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 第10-24页 |
| ·Recognizing Indian Identity before and after India's Independence | 第12-15页 |
| ·Critical Approaches to Midnight's Children | 第15-18页 |
| ·Cultural Identity and Hybridity | 第18-21页 |
| ·Research Objectives and Structure of the Thesis | 第21-24页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Fragmentation Pesented through Hybridized Symbols | 第24-39页 |
| ·Hole:Nose and the Perforated Sheet-Metaphor of Hybrid Memory | 第24-28页 |
| ·Spittoon-Container of Memory and Source of Amnesia | 第28-31页 |
| ·Pickle-making-History versus His Story | 第31-36页 |
| ·Snake and Ladder-Missing of Absolute Boundaries | 第36-39页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Ambivalence Presented through Characters | 第39-54页 |
| ·Juxtaposition of the Intellectual and the Illiterate | 第40-45页 |
| ·Combination of Destruction and Preservation | 第45-49页 |
| ·Joining of the West and the East | 第49-54页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Saleem's True Identity and Hybridity | 第54-65页 |
| ·All-inclusiveness-Parts and Whole | 第54-57页 |
| ·Saleem's "True Identity" | 第57-61页 |
| ·Aadam and Durga-Representation of the Third Principle | 第61-65页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第68-70页 |
