| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第9页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第12-21页 |
| 1.1 V. S. Naipaul and His The Enigma of Arrival | 第12-14页 |
| 1.1.1 An Introduction to V. S. Naipaul | 第12-14页 |
| 1.1.2 An Introduction to The Enigma of Arrival | 第14页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第14-19页 |
| 1.2.1 Studies Abroad | 第14-17页 |
| 1.2.2 Studies in China | 第17-19页 |
| 1.3 An Introduction to This thesis | 第19-21页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第21-28页 |
| 2.1 An Introduction to Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction Theory | 第21-25页 |
| 2.2 Derrida’s Subversion of Binary and Hierarchical Oppositions | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ THEME IN THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL: SUBVERSION OF CERTAINTY AND UNCERTAINTY | 第28-35页 |
| 3.1 Non-arrival in Either Side of the Binary Opposition | 第28-32页 |
| 3.1.1 Non-arrival in the Imaginary World | 第28-30页 |
| 3.1.2 Non-arrival in the Real World | 第30-32页 |
| 3.2 Arrival in the Juxtaposed World | 第32-35页 |
| CHATER Ⅳ IDENTITY IN THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL: SUBVERSION OF THE ADVANTAGED AND DISADVANTAGED | 第35-46页 |
| 4.1 Subversion of Englishness and Non-Englishness | 第35-38页 |
| 4.2 Subversion of Center and Margin | 第38-42页 |
| 4.2.1 Exile on the Margin | 第39-40页 |
| 4.2.2 Lost in the Center | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2.3 The Enigma of Arrival in the Middle Passage | 第41-42页 |
| 4.3 Subversion of Man and Writer | 第42-46页 |
| 4.3.1 The Sharp Binary Opposition of Man and Writer | 第42-44页 |
| 4.3.2 The Identity as Man and Writer | 第44-46页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ NARRATION IN THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL:SUBVERSION OF CLARITY AND AMBIGUITY | 第46-61页 |
| 5.1 Subversion of Fiction and Nonfiction | 第47-50页 |
| 5.2 Subversion of Time and Space | 第50-55页 |
| 5.3 Subversion of Reality and Memory | 第55-57页 |
| 5.4 Subversion of Positive Space and Negative Space | 第57-61页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ CONCLUSION | 第61-62页 |
| Notes | 第62-63页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第63-65页 |
