| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| Introduction | 第10-17页 |
| 0.1 Introduction to August Wilson and His Works | 第10-11页 |
| 0.2 Literature Review | 第11-17页 |
| 0.2.1 Literature Review Abroad | 第11-13页 |
| 0.2.2 Literature Review at Home | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter One The Theories of Cultural Memory | 第17-22页 |
| 1.1 Halbwachs’ Theory of Collective Memory | 第17-19页 |
| 1.2 Assman’s Theory of Cultural Memory | 第19-20页 |
| 1.3 The Concepts of Collective Memory and Cultural Memory | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two The Representation of Cultural Memory in Wilson’s Plays | 第22-31页 |
| 2.1 Forgetting the Past: Loss of Cultural Memory | 第22-24页 |
| 2.2 Retrieving Cultural Memory through Socialization | 第24-27页 |
| 2.2.1 Loomis’ Memory of Enslavement | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2.2 The Charles’ Family Memory | 第25-27页 |
| 2.3 Constructing the Cultural Memory of City of Bones | 第27-31页 |
| 2.3.1 City of Bones as the Myth of Origin | 第27-29页 |
| 2.3.2 The Transmission of Cultural Memory | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three The Strategies of Constructing Cultural Memory | 第31-40页 |
| 3.1 The“Spatial Frames”of Cultural Memory in Wilson’s Plays | 第31-35页 |
| 3.1.1 The Middle Passage and the South | 第31-34页 |
| 3.1.2 The Meaningful Objects | 第34-35页 |
| 3.2 Aunt Ester and Bynum as Memory Bearers | 第35-37页 |
| 3.3 The Blues that Sings the Cultural Memory of African Americans | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Four The Roles of Cultural Memory in Wilson’s Plays | 第40-51页 |
| 4.1 Representing the Miserable History of African Americans | 第40-42页 |
| 4.1.1 Slavery and Slave Trade as“Loud Talking” | 第40-41页 |
| 4.1.2 The Memory of the Civil War | 第41-42页 |
| 4.1.3 The Memory of the Great Migration | 第42页 |
| 4.2 Solving Identity Crisis of African Americans | 第42-47页 |
| 4.2.1 Cultural Memory as a Way of Reconnecting with the Community | 第43-45页 |
| 4.2.2 Cultural Memory as a Starting Place in the World | 第45-46页 |
| 4.2.3 Cultural Memory as a Way of Inheriting Ancestral Heritage | 第46-47页 |
| 4.3 Cultural Memory and Group Identity | 第47-51页 |
| Conclusion | 第51-53页 |
| Works Cited | 第53-59页 |
| Publications | 第59-60页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第60页 |
