| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-16页 |
| Ⅰ An Overview on Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mama Day | 第16-26页 |
| 1 African American Women Writers in Social and Historical Background | 第16-19页 |
| 2 Critical Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mama Day | 第19-23页 |
| 3 Hurston and Naylor in African American Literary Tradition | 第23-26页 |
| Ⅱ Naylor's Innovation Based on Their Eyes Were Watching God | 第26-50页 |
| 1 Reclamation of African Literary Tradition | 第26-34页 |
| 2 Cocoa Within the Traditional African American Community | 第34-39页 |
| 3 Narrative Strategy of"the Speakerly Text" in Both Novels | 第39-44页 |
| 4 Post-Modern Narrative Strategy in Mama Day | 第44-50页 |
| Ⅲ Naylor's Contribution to African American Women Writing | 第50-61页 |
| 1 The Supernatural as a Tool of Empowerment | 第50-53页 |
| 2 Combination:the Real and the Supernatural,the History and the Reality | 第53-56页 |
| 3 Naylor's Contribution to Black Aesthetics | 第56-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| Works Cited | 第64-70页 |
| Appendix | 第70页 |
