暴力叙事与儿童教育:《格林童话》研究

Violence for Children Education:A Study of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales

作为世界儿童文学经典,《格林童话》在当代具有一种内在矛盾性:少年儿童是其主要的读者,但是这些故事中充斥着各种与暴力、残酷、恐惧相关的细节。文章研究《格林童话》的暴力叙事,分析其暴力伦理的特点。论文指出:这些故事中暴力的正义性是当时社会伦理的表达,也与社会等级、性别身份密切相关。要有效地利用这些童话故事教育儿童,我们既要回到《格林童话》产生的历史语境中考察其中暴力情节的合理性,又要在当代权力和正义伦理框架下反思这些暴力叙事可能对少年儿童产生的影响。

The Grimm's Fairy Tales,one of the children's literature classics,is a work of ambiguity for readers today: targeting at children as its main audience,it has numerous stories of violence,cruelty and horror.This paper focuses on analyzing its description of violence.The justification of violence in these stories is the symptomof the social ethics of the time when these stories were created,deeply embedded in hierarchical structure and gender identity.To make the best use of these stories,on the one hand,we must understand the use of violence in the context when the stories were told;on the other hand,it is important for modern readers,including parents and teachers,to understand the meaning of violent plots and the possible influence upon the children.