Acknowledgements3-4
摘要4-6
Abstract6-10
Chapter One Introduction10-16
1.1 bell hooks10-12
1.2 Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood12-14
1.3 Literature review14-16
Chapter Two Narrative Structure: A Crazy Quilt16-32
2.1 Types of narrative structure in Bone Black17-23
2.1.1 Non-pnear structure17-19
2.1.2 Fragmented narrative19-21
2.1.3 Dual-narrative21-23
2.2 Metaphorical structure: pke a crazy quilt23-32
2.2.1 Quilt metaphor24-26
2.2.2 Metaphorical effects of the structure26-32
Chapter Three The Third-person Narration in Bone Black: Fictiveness in Autobiography32-42
3.1 Bone Black as both fiction and autobiography32-33
3.2 Fictiveness in the third-person narration of Bone Black33-39
3.2.1 The third person in autobiography— theoretical basis34-36
3.2.2 The effacing narrating self in the third-person narration36-38
3.2.3 The narrative omniscience in the third-person narration38-39
3.3 Identity and genre behind the ventriloqui effect39-42
Chapter Four Postmodern Narrative and Black Female Experience Modes in Bone Black42-50
4.1 Postmodern narrative and genre features in Bone Black43-45
4.1.1 Postmodern narrative features43-44
4.1.2 Hybrid genres for postmodern autobiographical writing44-45
4.2 Two modes of black female experience in Bone Black45-50
4.2.1 Quilting: a mode of culture expression for postmodern blackness46-47
4.2.2 Ventriloqui: a mode of self expression for postmodern identity47-50
Chapter Five Conclusion50-52
Works Cited52-56
攻读硕士学位期间的探讨成果56