边界与困境:定义幼儿文学

Boundary and Dilemma: Defining Infant Literature

幼儿文学是儿童文学的一个分支,也是儿童文学中最具特色、与成人文学差异性最明显的类型。幼儿文学中的"幼儿"作为年龄表征,具有流动性和历史性。现代幼儿文学建立在成人/儿童、儿童/幼儿具有本质差异的二分式假设之上,具有双重的"异质性"和依赖性。以年龄阶段理论为基础的幼儿文学存在无限分化的可能,共性与差异、连续与断裂之间的失衡将导致幼儿文学的碎片化、贫乏化与读者的同质化。视觉化或视听结合是幼儿文学新的表现形态,但不可取代传统的纯文字文学听赏。幼儿文学与儿童文学、成人文学之间的界限是必要的,却不是固定和泾渭分明的。幼儿文学的艺术魅力往往存在于那些难以捉摸的边界之间。

Infant literature is a branch of children’s literature,and also the most distinctive literary type with the most obvious difference from adult literature.As a sign of age,"infants"in infant literature has fluidity and historicity.Modern infant literature is based on the dichotomy assumption that there are essential differences between adults and children,and between children and infants with double"heterogeneity"and also double dependencies.Infant literature based on age theory has the possibility of infinite differentiation and the imbalance between generality and difference and between continuity and break will lead to the fragmentation and poverty of infant literature and the homogeneity of readers.Visual or audio-visual combination is a new expression form of infant literature,but it cannot replace the appreciation of traditional pure text-listening.The boundary between infant literature and adult literature is necessary,but is not fixed and strikingly different.The artistic charm of infant literature often exists between those elusive boundaries.