| 摘要 | 第2-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One The Massacre Established as the Narrative Center | 第12-28页 |
| 1.1 The Massacre as the Center of Discourse Time | 第12-19页 |
| 1.1.1 Five Phases of the Novel's Story Time | 第13-18页 |
| 1.1.2 Discourse Time and the Major Doubts in the Massacre | 第18-19页 |
| 1.2 The Massacre as the Center of Structure | 第19-28页 |
| 1.2.1 Establishment of the Novel's Structure | 第20-24页 |
| 1.2.2 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 |
| 2.1 The Cultural Root of the Black Community | 第28-39页 |
| 2.1.1 Repeating Narration of"the Disallowing" | 第29-32页 |
| 2.1.2 Functions of Repeating Narration of"the Disallowing" | 第32-39页 |
| 2.1.2.1 Characterizing Significance | 第32-34页 |
| 2.1.2.2 Thematic Significance | 第34-37页 |
| 2.1.2.3 Rhetorical Significance | 第37-39页 |
| 2.2 The Social Root of the Black Community | 第39-56页 |
| 2.2.1 Unreliable Narrators' Accounts and the History | 第39-43页 |
| 2.2.2 Reliable Narrators' Accounts and the History | 第43-47页 |
| 2.2.3 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 |
| 3.1 Discrepancies between the Two Communities:Juxtaposition | 第57-68页 |
| 3.1.1 Different Attitudes towards a Traumatic History | 第58-60页 |
| 3.1.2 Different Controlling Ideologies | 第60-62页 |
| 3.1.3 Different Racial,Gender and Class Conditions | 第62-66页 |
| 3.1.4 The Motivation for Violence | 第66-68页 |
| 3.2 Conflicts between the Two Communities:Polyphony | 第68-84页 |
| 3.2.1 Soane:Change of Conservative Tradition | 第69-72页 |
| 3.2.2 Sweetie:Tragic Fate of Blind Adherents | 第72-76页 |
| 3.2.3 Arnette:Unqualified Leader for the Young Generation | 第76-81页 |
| 3.2.4 Menus:Transformed Frenzied Attacker | 第81-84页 |
| 3.3 Effects of the Use of Polyphony | 第84-92页 |
| 3.3.1 The Feminist Effect | 第85-86页 |
| 3.3.2 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 |
