●CHAPTER ONE: THE UNCERTAINTY OF GENRE
1 The Autobiography Camp
2 The Fiction Camp
3 The Chinese American ition
4 Suggestions of Other Genres
5 Kingston's Opinion about the Genre Classification
CHAPTER TWO: THE UNCERTAINTY OF IMAGES
1 The Uncertain Ghost Image
2 The Uncertain Character Image
3 The Uncertain Bird Image
CHAPTER THREE: THE SEMANTIC UNCERTAINTY
1 Conflicting Semantics
2 Two or More Alternative Versions of One Fact
3 Ambiguous Semantics
CHAPTER FOUR: THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES LEADING TO UNCERTAINTY
1 The Combination of Reality and Unreality
2 Talk-story
3 Denarration
4 The Unreliable Narrator
5 Free Indirect Discourse
CHAPTER FIVE: THE STEADINESS OF THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
1 The Chinese-box Narrative Model
2 A Similar Sequence of Narrative Events
3 A Similar Syntagmatic Structure
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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