童年美学观照下的伦理冲突——以《城南旧事》为例

Ethical Conflicts in the Aesthetic View of Childhood——Use the Memories of Peking:South Side Stories as an Illustration

“五四”时期是中国与西方、传统与现代多种思想碰撞对话的时期。价值的“诸神之争”必然带来伦理的重构,伦理重构的冲动以儿童文学为场域呈现出丰富驳杂的意蕴。林海音的《城南旧事》是呈现1920年代伦理冲突和重构的典型文本。女主角英子在“疯癫与文明”、好与坏、传统与现代、“出走”与“归来”等伦理困境中,以至真、至善的童心对现有方案提出质疑,其思考和选择呈现出的童年美学,提供了对黑暗现实进行批判和超越的未来指向。

Chinese and Western,traditional and modern ideas collided and conversed throughout the May Fourth Era.Ethics had to be rebuilt as a result of the"clash of the gods"over values,and this impulse used children's literature as a platform to convey a complex and nuanced message.The Memories of Peking:South Side Stories by LIN Haiyin is a typical text that depicts the moral disputes and reconstructions of the 1920s.As she grapples with moral conundrums such as"madness and civilization",goodness and badness,tradition and modernity,as well as"leaving"and"returning",the protagonist,Yingzi,challenges the existing solutions with her childlike heart of truth and goodness.Her reflection and choices present an aesthetics of childhood that offers a future direction to critique and transcend the dark reality.