西方儿童文学中后殖民主义话语的构建分析

The Construction of Post-colonial Discourse in Western Children Literature

儿童文学作品被认为是儿童受众这一特殊群体常见的识、读、写,初步习得社会意识的感性形态,然而不少西方儿童文学作品却充斥着殖民主义和新殖民主义的意识倾向,内容的种族色彩和主观偏见较为多见。在回顾西方儿童文学题材和体裁时,通过对后殖民主义文学批评理论的分析与介绍,对现当代具有代表性的儿童文学作品进行了文本解析,剖析西方儿童文学作品后殖民话语的构建手段,揭示出儿童文学被成人宰制的后殖民性。

Children literature functions are regarded as a crucial instrument in the development of children literacies and cognition,facilitating the process of children＇s initial acquisition of the social ideologies. However,a multiplicity of children literary works is surprisingly characterized by colonial and neo-colonial discourse. On the basis of reviewing and analyzing the theme and genre of western children literature,we introduces the post-colonialism as a literary critical theory,interprets representative contemporary children literary works in this domain,and delineates the measures by which post-colonial discourse is deliberately constructed and perpetuated. It is argued that,to certain extents,children literature resembles the characteristics of the post-colonial ideology,is subjected to the rule prescribed and manipulated by adults. Therefore,the dialectical relationship between children＇s free growth and adults＇ consistent control remains as a permanent theme in this particular type of literature.