●Chapter One Introduction
Ⅰ. Academic Acceptance of Morrison's Works
Ⅱ. Morrison Studies Related to Gender Politics, and the Body
Ⅲ. Gender, Gender Politics, and the Body
Chapter Two Gender Politics and the Loss of Subjectivity
Ⅰ. The Black Body in Imagination
Ⅱ. Remembering the Body in The Bluest Eye
Ⅲ. Making of the Body in God Help the Child
Ⅳ. Summary
Chapter Three Gender Politics and the Establishment of Subjectivity
Ⅰ. The Wounded Body and Language: Beloved
Ⅱ. Scar, Transformation, and Voice: Beloved, and A Mercy
Ⅲ. Scar and Maternal Healing: Beloved, and Paradise
Ⅳ. Summary
Chapter Four Gender Politics within African Americans
Ⅰ. An Affirmation of Love in Beloved and Jazz
Ⅱ. Envisioning Violence in Tar Baby
Ⅲ. Reconstructing the Myth of Flight in Song of Solomon
Ⅳ. Summary
Chapter Five The Black Body as the Site of History
Ⅰ. Beloved: Memory and History
Ⅱ. Paradise: Gender, Race, and Victimhood
Ⅲ. Jazz: Reconstructing Histories
Ⅳ. Summary
Chapter Six Conclusion
References

本著作集歷史語境、理論研究與文學閱讀實踐於一體，通過多方位地采納當今美國非裔文學及文化批評領域——性別理論和身體理論——從文本出發，采取理論分析與文本細讀相結合的原則，圍繞性別、身體、歷史這三個維度，對非裔美國女性作家托妮·莫裡森小說中的身體展開深入研究。通過解讀莫裡森主要小說，本著作力圖闡明：在莫裡森的小說中，身體敘事於黑人的身份認同及歷史書寫具有重要的價值與意義。