Introduction 1
Chapter One Revising the Afro-American and Jewish-American Aesthetic Tradition 32
Ⅰ．Black Aesthetic and Ishmael Reed's "True Afro-American Aesthetic" 34
Ⅱ．From Newark to Prague:Roth's Journey East and the Theme of Transgression 66
Chapter Two Revisiting Afro-American and Jewish-American History 98
Ⅰ．Ishmael Reed's Revisioning of History 100
Ⅱ．Philip Roth's Historical Fantasy 119
Chapter Three Searching for the Alienated Self and Masculinity in a Feminist Aura 138
Ⅰ．Misogyny as a Historical Symptom for Ishmael Reed 142
Ⅱ．Return to the Body and the Masculine Subject in Philip Roth 171
Chapter Four Frame-Breaking in Narrative Structure 213
Ⅰ．Reed's Free Narratology and Inductive Detection 216
Ⅱ．Roth's Double and Short-Circuit of Characters 228
Conclusion 250
附录 264
Works Cited 270
后记 285
Index 288