| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-13页 |
| Introduction | 第15-31页 |
| Ⅰ Literature Review | 第15-19页 |
| Ⅱ The Protest Tradition and Morrison's Poetics | 第19-25页 |
| Ⅲ Narrative as a Socio.Political Act | 第25-31页 |
| Chapter 1 Redefining the Meaning of Blackness | 第31-55页 |
| 1.1 Dissociating Beauty and Color | 第33-38页 |
| 1.2 Anti-Stereotyping of Black Females | 第38-45页 |
| 1.3 Rethinking Black Manhood | 第45-53页 |
| Conclusion | 第53-55页 |
| Chapter 2 Neoslave Narratives Problematize History | 第55-79页 |
| 2.1 Re-imaging the Colonial America-A Mercy | 第56-61页 |
| 2.2 Re-textualizing the Garner Case-Beloved | 第61-66页 |
| 2.3 Narrative as "Talk Cure" of Past Trauma | 第66-76页 |
| Conclusion | 第76-79页 |
| Chapter 3 Morrison's Plotting Art and Patterns | 第79-95页 |
| 3.1 Epigraph or Prologue,Why Bother? | 第80-84页 |
| 3.2 Plot Structure and Major Patterns | 第84-90页 |
| 3.4 Death as one kind of Closure | 第90-93页 |
| Conclusion | 第93-95页 |
| Chapter 4 Morrison's Narrators and Narration | 第95-125页 |
| 4.1 Character and Author as Duo Narrators | 第98-110页 |
| 4.2 The Mysterious Narrator "I" in Jazz | 第110-116页 |
| 4.3 Multiple Perspectives in Paradise | 第116-122页 |
| Conclusion | 第122-125页 |
| Chapter 5 Strategies of Speech Presentation | 第125-154页 |
| 5.1 Conversational Implicature and Irony | 第126-134页 |
| 5.2 Speech and Characterization | 第134-139页 |
| 5.3 FDS/Monologue and Empathy | 第139-146页 |
| 5.4 Thought Presentation-FIT and FDT | 第146-148页 |
| 5.5 Slipping and Splicing in Song of Solomon | 第148-151页 |
| Conclusion | 第151-154页 |
| Conclusion | 第154-161页 |
| Bibliography | 第161-167页 |
