| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One The Third Life of Grange Copeland: Walker's Early Quest for a harmonious Society | 第11-30页 |
| ·Margaret's death and Copeland's first life: a result of miserable black social environment | 第11-16页 |
| ·Sex and sexuality: the white sexual exploitation | 第12-14页 |
| ·Family disruption: the white economic exploitation | 第14-16页 |
| ·Mem's death and Copeland's second life: a confrontation between blacks and whites | 第16-25页 |
| ·The second great migration: black's search for better life | 第17-19页 |
| ·The intra-racial gender discrimination: Brownfield's blind search for manhood | 第19-21页 |
| ·The failure of self-realization: a miserable Mem | 第21-25页 |
| ·Copeland's death in his third life: Walker's dream of a harmonious life | 第25-30页 |
| ·Walker's harmonious society: the land and the American dream | 第25-27页 |
| ·Copeland's death: the regeneration of the black people's dream | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter Two Possessing the Secret of Joy: the Joy of Possessing Self-recognition | 第30-41页 |
| ·The circumcision: a dilemma for African American women | 第30-38页 |
| ·Circumcision: a flight for African identity | 第31-32页 |
| ·Circumcision: a physical and spiritual torture to black women | 第32-35页 |
| ·Circumcision: Tashi's search for self-hood | 第35-38页 |
| ·Tashi-Adam-Lisette: Walker's depiction of cross-cultural relationship | 第38-41页 |
| ·Tashi and Lisette: representatives of different cultures | 第38-39页 |
| ·Tashi and Lisette: a cultural conflict | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Alice Walker's Concern for Social Problem and Individual Value | 第41-57页 |
| ·African American literary tradition and Walker's two novels | 第41-49页 |
| ·About African American literary tradition | 第41-43页 |
| ·The thematic tradition reflected in the two novels | 第43-46页 |
| ·Walker's innovation of the tradition | 第46-49页 |
| ·Feminism and black feminism: a stress on female value | 第49-53页 |
| ·Individual value emphasized in Possessing the Secret of Joy | 第51-53页 |
| ·Walker's womanism: a change of stress from social problem to the search of self | 第53-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
| 在读期间个人发表作品 | 第63-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65页 |
