| 摘要 | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One The Massacre Established as the Narrative Center | 第12-28页 |
| ·The Massacre as the Center of Discourse Time | 第12-19页 |
| ·Five Phases of the Novel's Story Time | 第13-18页 |
| ·Discourse Time and the Major Doubts in the Massacre | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Massacre as the Center of Structure | 第19-28页 |
| ·Establishment of the Novel's Structure | 第20-24页 |
| ·Structural Significance | 第24-28页 |
| Chapter Two The Fundamental Causes of the Massacre:Cultural and Social Roots of the Black Community | 第28-56页 |
| ·The Cultural Root of the Black Community | 第28-39页 |
| ·Repeating Narration of"the Disallowing" | 第29-32页 |
| ·Functions of Repeating Narration of"the Disallowing" | 第32-39页 |
| ·Characterizing Significance | 第32-34页 |
| ·Thematic Significance | 第34-37页 |
| ·Rhetorical Significance | 第37-39页 |
| ·The Social Root of the Black Community | 第39-56页 |
| ·Unreliable Narrators' Accounts and the History | 第39-43页 |
| ·Reliable Narrators' Accounts and the History | 第43-47页 |
| ·Discrepancies between Double Versions of the Accounts | 第47-56页 |
| Chapter Three The Immediate Cause of the Massacre:Conflicts between the Convent and the Black Community | 第56-92页 |
| ·Discrepancies between the Two Communities:Juxtaposition | 第57-68页 |
| ·Different Attitudes towards a Traumatic History | 第58-60页 |
| ·Different Controlling Ideologies | 第60-62页 |
| ·Different Racial,Gender and Class Conditions | 第62-66页 |
| ·The Motivation for Violence | 第66-68页 |
| ·Conflicts between the Two Communities:Polyphony | 第68-84页 |
| ·Soane:Change of Conservative Tradition | 第69-72页 |
| ·Sweetie:Tragic Fate of Blind Adherents | 第72-76页 |
| ·Arnette:Unqualified Leader for the Young Generation | 第76-81页 |
| ·Menus:Transformed Frenzied Attacker | 第81-84页 |
| ·Effects of the Use of Polyphony | 第84-92页 |
| ·The Feminist Effect | 第85-86页 |
| ·The Stylistic Effect | 第86-92页 |
| Conclusion | 第92-98页 |
| Bibliography | 第98-102页 |
| Literary Achievement | 第102-104页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第104页 |