| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese and English) | 第6-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| ·Research Background and Purpose of the Thesis | 第9-10页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第10-15页 |
| ·African American Literature and Criticism of the 20th Century | 第11-13页 |
| ·A Review of Studies on Langston Hughes and His Poetry | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter Two Rise of Langston Hughes’s Poetic Aesthetics | 第15-23页 |
| ·Harlem Renaissance and Bud of Black Aesthetics | 第15-17页 |
| ·Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance and Black Aesthetics | 第17-18页 |
| ·Langston Hughes’s Views on Black Writer’s Political Mission | 第18-20页 |
| ·Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance and Afro-modernism | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter Three Poetic Aesthetics of Langston Hughes | 第23-57页 |
| ·Langston Hughes’s Black Aesthetics During the Harlem Polemic | 第23-32页 |
| ·The Negro in Art: Who Shall Be Portrayed | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Negro in Art: How and What Shall He Portray | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Negro in Art: What Negro Writer’s Duty Is | 第29-32页 |
| ·Langston Hughes’s Blues Aesthetics | 第32-40页 |
| ·Blues, Black Culture and Negro Souls | 第32-34页 |
| ·Aesthetic Innovation in Blues Poetry | 第34-40页 |
| ·Political Engagement as A Part of Poetics Aesthetics | 第40-54页 |
| ·Poetry for Political Ends | 第40-43页 |
| ·Imago Beauty in Political Poetry | 第43-48页 |
| ·Aesthetic Change in Radical Poetry | 第48-54页 |
| ·Langston Hughes’s Approaches to Afro-modernist Aesthetics | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Four Contributions of Hughes’s Poetic Aethetics to Afro-American Literature | 第57-63页 |
| ·Breakthrough of the Restriction on Afro-American Literature | 第57-59页 |
| ·Modification to Afro-American Literature Traditions | 第59-63页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Notes | 第65-66页 |
| References | 第66-68页 |
