| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| I.TONI MORRISON AND HER NOVEL JAZZ | 第10-12页 |
| II.SYMBOLIC USE OF JAZZ IN THE NOVEL | 第12-29页 |
| 1.JAZZ AS ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE | 第13-21页 |
| (1) Jazz and structure | 第13-15页 |
| (2) Jazz and style | 第15-17页 |
| (3) Jazz and point of view | 第17-21页 |
| 2.JAZZ AS PROJECTION OF EMOTIONS | 第21-29页 |
| (1) Characters' emotions -- trauma of unmothered children | 第21-26页 |
| (2) Readers' emotions –from confusion to sympathy | 第26-29页 |
| III.JAZZ AND THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY | 第29-46页 |
| 1.EXPECTATION OF "CANAAN" -- A CITY OF BOTH PRIDE AND SHAME AND UNPREDICTABILITY | 第30-33页 |
| 2.ASPIRATION / DISILLUSION AND DISLOCATION BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL | 第33-40页 |
| (1) Instability and violence of the city | 第33-36页 |
| (2) Sweet-miserable memory of the past | 第36-38页 |
| (3) Distance between image and reality | 第38-40页 |
| 3.RECONSTRUCTION -- JAZZ AS A RESTORATIVE POWER TO REINTEGRATE THE SPLIT SELF | 第40-46页 |
| IV. CONCLUSION | 第46-47页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第47-48页 |
