中国儿童文学自主知识体系构建的逻辑进路

The Logical Path for Constructing an Independent Knowledge System of Chinese Children’s Literature

中国儿童文学知识体系的建构离不开现代知识论的转向,这种转向突破了儿童“不可知”和儿童文学“不可能”的学理偏误。中国儿童文学是基于人学知识论框架而重造的新文学知识,它不是个体知识或地方知识,而是为中国人确立国家文化认同的现代知识,构筑了人与知识互动共生的结构关系。学科建制是推动文学转换为知识的推手,文学的分科衍生了“文”与“道”的分野,“人”成为“文”的本原,这为中国儿童文学知识学科化提供了理论前提。由于缺乏大学教育体制的支撑,中国儿童文学知识生产整体迟缓,急需在新文学知识体系中确立身份。内外资源的动态互动驱动了“儿童”与“文学”的知识生产,立足于民族性、现代性和人民性的立场,中国儿童文学知识体系没有归入复古或西化的窠臼中,而是标识出中国式现代化的精神气度。

The construction of a knowledge system for Chinese children’s literature is inseparable from the shift in modern epistemology,a shift that breaks through the epistemological errors of the“unknowability”of children and the“impossibility”of children’s literature.Chinese children’s literature is a reconstituted body of new literary knowledge,built on the framework of human-centered epistemology.It is not individual or local knowledge but rather a form of modern knowledge that establishes cultural identity for the Chinese nation,creating a symbiotic relationship between people and knowledge.The discipline institutionalization acts as a driving force in transforming literature into knowledge,with the subdivision of literature giving rise to the differentiation between“literature”and“truth and justice”,where“human”becomes the essence of“literature”.This provides the theoretical foundation for the disciplinary formation of Chinese children’s literature as a field of knowledge.Due to the lack of support from the higher education system,the overall knowledge production of Chinese children’s literature has been slow,and it urgently needs to establish its identity within the new literary knowledge system.The dynamic interaction of internal and external resources drives the knowledge production of“children”and“literature”.Positioned at the intersection of national identity,modernity,and populism,the knowledge system of Chinese children’s literature does not fall into the traps of retrogression or westernization but rather demonstrates the spiritual ethos of Chinese-style modernization.