| ABSTRACT | 第1-10页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第10-13页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第13-17页 |
| CHAPTER ONE To Be a Shining Spark—Janie's Persistent Longing for the Horizon in Her Heart | 第17-39页 |
| 1.The Horizon | 第17-23页 |
| ·Janie's Blurry Dreams | 第18页 |
| ·The Give-and-Take Love and the Ideal Marriage | 第18-19页 |
| ·Janie's Metaphorical Self-definition | 第19-21页 |
| ·Independence of a Black Woman | 第21-23页 |
| 2.Obstacles in Janie's Journey to the Horizon | 第23-30页 |
| ·Janie's Confusion of Her Ethnic Identity | 第23-26页 |
| ·Janie's Confusion of Her Female Identity | 第26-30页 |
| 3.Janie's Achieving the Horizon and Self-fulfillment | 第30-39页 |
| ·Janie's Construction of Her Racial Identity | 第30-32页 |
| ·Janie's Construction of Her Female Identity | 第32-39页 |
| CHAPTER TWO To Be a Singing Spark—Janie's Search for Her Voice | 第39-57页 |
| 1.The Verbal Power and One's Self-identity | 第39-44页 |
| 2.The Contrast of the Verbal Power in the Novel | 第44-49页 |
| ·Nanny's Verbal Power Versus Janie's | 第44-46页 |
| ·Logan's Verbal Power Versus Janie's | 第46-47页 |
| ·Joe's Verbal Power Versus Janie's | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Verbal Harmony Between Tea Cake and Janie | 第48-49页 |
| 3.Janie's Finding Her Voice to Articulate Her Identity | 第49-57页 |
| ·The Passive and Instinctive Voice to Resist Oppressions | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Conscious and Systematic Voice to Display Her Personality | 第52-55页 |
| ·Janie's Storytelling—the Mark of Janie's Being a Singing Spark to Spread Black Feminist Consciousness | 第55-57页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Janie's Prototype—Janie and Hurston | 第57-69页 |
| 1.The Correspondence in Living Experience | 第57-62页 |
| 2.Both Hurston and Janie as a Radical and Anti-traditional Black Woman | 第62-65页 |
| 3.The Great Influence of Both Hurston and Janie on Other Black Women | 第65-69页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第69-72页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第72-75页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第75-76页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第76页 |
