| 中文摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One Gender vs. Nationality, or Both? | 第13-32页 |
| ·Two Serious Female Writers on Gender and National Identity | 第13-22页 |
| ·Margaret Atwood: Gender over Nationality | 第15-18页 |
| ·Margaret Laurence: Nationality over Gender | 第18-22页 |
| ·Anglophone Literary Nationalism: From "the Outside" to "the Inside" | 第22-27页 |
| ·The 1960s and 1970s: Being Institutionalized | 第22-24页 |
| ·Canadian Literature: Individual but Not Exclusive | 第24-27页 |
| ·Another Signature: Feminist Writings by Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood | 第27-32页 |
| ·Writing to Respond to Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s? | 第27-28页 |
| ·Writing Matters in both Verbal and Nonverbal Mother-Daughter Relationships: The Diviners and Lady Oracle | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Two What and Where Is Here?—Islands and Cities | 第32-49页 |
| 2. 1 Islands: Multiple Retreats | 第33-43页 |
| ·Ambiguous Retreat vs. Positive Retreat: The Diviners and Bodily Harm | 第33-38页 |
| ·Complicated Retreats: Surfacing and A Jest of God | 第38-43页 |
| ·Cities—Places of Tension, Distrust, Evil, and Disgrace | 第43-49页 |
| Chapter Three Re-creation of Canadian Myth: Prairie and Wilderness | 第49-63页 |
| ·Prairie Innovated | 第50-55页 |
| ·Wilderness Reshaped | 第55-63页 |
| Chapter Four Influences of Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: Cultivating Inside and Inspiring Outside | 第63-75页 |
| 4. 1 Mutual Influence: Reservation-holder Laurence and Spokeswoman Atwood | 第63-72页 |
| ·Two-way Influences in Gender and Nationality | 第65-71页 |
| ·Influencing Here the Way They Influence Each Other | 第71-72页 |
| ·Influencing "Other" | 第72-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-88页 |
| 作者在读期间研究成果简介 | 第88-90页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第90页 |