| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-15页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第15-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-42页 |
| 1. The Postmodern Challenge to Historiography | 第16-24页 |
| 2. Historiographic Metafiction: A Postmodern Genre | 第24-28页 |
| 3. AWorking Definition of “Political Engagement”in Literature | 第28-31页 |
| 4. Literature Review | 第31-42页 |
| Chapter One Historiographic Metafiction: Reuniting the Aesthetic with the Political | 第42-67页 |
| ·Historiographic Metafiction versus Metafiction | 第43-47页 |
| ·Historiographic Metafiction, the Historical Novel, and the Nonfictional Novel | 第47-51页 |
| ·The Paradoxes of Historiographic Metafiction | 第51-54页 |
| ·Historicity and Discursiveness | 第51-52页 |
| ·Referentiality and Metafictionality | 第52-54页 |
| ·Reuniting the Aesthetic with the Political | 第54-67页 |
| ·The Apolitical Stance of High Modernism and New Avant-Garde | 第55-59页 |
| ·From Political Apathy to Political Engagement: Change of Dominant | 第59-67页 |
| Chapter Two E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel: Putting America on Trial | 第67-91页 |
| ·Daniel Writing His Own Book as the Heir of the Atomic Spies | 第70-76页 |
| ·Traumatizing the Survivals and Putting America on Trial | 第76-84页 |
| ·From the Old Left Communists to the New Left Students | 第84-91页 |
| Chapter Three Robert Coover’s The Public Burning: Staging the Miscarriage of Justice | 第91-113页 |
| ·Nixon Recounting His Independent Investigation of the Rosenberg Case | 第93-100页 |
| ·Creating a Carnival of Shame and Staging the Miscarriage of Justice | 第100-108页 |
| ·From Cold War Paranoia to the Watergate Scandal | 第108-113页 |
| Chapter Four Don DeLillo’s Libra: Refuting the “Official Truth” | 第113-132页 |
| ·Nicholas Branch Composing His Secret History of the Assassination | 第115-121页 |
| ·Refuting the Official Narrative and Revealing an Alternative Truth | 第121-127页 |
| ·From the Kennedy Assassination to the Iran-Contra Affair | 第127-132页 |
| Conclusion | 第132-139页 |
| Works Cited | 第139-147页 |
| Appendix | 第147-188页 |
| 1. Dwelling in the Ambiguity of History: An Interview with E. L. Doctorow by Chen Ju | 第147-158页 |
| 2. Getting inside the Stories: An Interview with Robert Coover by Chen Ju | 第158-173页 |
| 3. Keeping Fiction Alive: An Interview with Don DeLillo by Chen Ju | 第173-188页 |
