| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-38页 |
| Chapter One Blood Meridian: Replaying Frontier Ideology | 第38-99页 |
| A. Frontier Expansion during and after the Mexican-American War | 第41-61页 |
| B. The Alliance between Frontier Violence and Imperialist Power | 第61-79页 |
| C. Anti-Imperialist Power and Ambivalence of (Anti)-Imperialism | 第79-99页 |
| Chapter Two All the Pretty Horses: Criticizing Frontier Ideology | 第99-167页 |
| A. The Imperialist Imagining of the “New Frontier” | 第102-125页 |
| B. The Encounter between Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist Power in the “New Frontier | 第125-150页 |
| C. The Disillusionment of the Imperial Dream in the “New Frontier” | 第150-167页 |
| Chapter Three Cities of the Plain: Transcending Frontier Ideology | 第167-227页 |
| A. The Frontier as a Finish Project and Frontier Nostalgia | 第169-190页 |
| B. The Failed Agent of New Imperialism for the “Symbolic Frontier” | 第190-210页 |
| C. Re-integration into the Hybridized Frontier | 第210-227页 |
| Conclusion | 第227-233页 |
| Works Cited | 第233-248页 |
