| Acknowledgments | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-20页 |
| ·Alice Walker and The Color Purple | 第11-13页 |
| ·Literature Review on The Color Purple | 第13-15页 |
| ·Theoretical Basis and Overview of the Thesis | 第15-20页 |
| Chapter Two Narrative Voice and Female Authority | 第20-28页 |
| ·A Review of Feminist Narratology on Narrative Voice | 第20-21页 |
| ·Celie's Personal Narrative Voice:Claiming Black Female | 第21-24页 |
| ·Celie's Epistolary Writing:Creating Black Women's | 第24-25页 |
| ·Celie's black Vernacular Form:Reflecting Black Women's Discourse Authority | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Focalization and Female Subjectivity | 第28-38页 |
| ·The Classification of Focalization and Its Significance | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Usage of Internal Focalization in The Color Purple | 第29-38页 |
| ·Celie's Observation on Sofia:Contributing to Her Self-reflection | 第30-32页 |
| ·Celie's Observation on Shug:Facilitating Her Self-transformation | 第32-34页 |
| ·Celie's Observation on Albert:Validating Her Self-identification | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Four"Quiltlike"Narrative Structure:People's Survival as Wholeness | 第38-51页 |
| ·The Cultural and Historical Context of "Quilting" | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Usage of "Quiltike" Narrative Structure in The Color Purple | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Application of Those Embedded Patterns:Reflecting Walker's Wide Ideological Concerns on African Americans as a Whole | 第42-51页 |
| ·The Embedded Pattern of Shug's Blues and Squeak's Transformation | 第42-45页 |
| ·The Embedded Pattern of Sofia's Struggle | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Embedded Pattern of Olinka World | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第51-54页 |
| Works Cited | 第54-59页 |
| Publications | 第59页 |
