Children's Literature Creation of Nian Hong Under the Perspective of Adult 年红成人本位视域下的儿童文学创作

Abstract

年红成人本位视域下的儿童文学创作

摘要

年红是马来西亚资深的儿童文学作家，自1957年马来西亚独立后开始创作至今，共出版了86本儿童文学作品。他积极推广马华儿童文学，创办南马文艺研究会,其贡献获得了国内外机构的肯定，多次受邀到多个国家主讲“儿童文学”的课题。本文通过文本细读，分析年红作品中儿童人物的特点，探讨年红如何借由作品教育儿童读者，尤其是选择站在成人本位的视角，在作品中塑造华人传统视域下的儿童形象并探究其背后的原因，以及成人本位写作手法对当代马来西亚儿童文学的影响。

关键词：年红, 马华文学, 华文儿童文学, 儿童观, 成人本位

Children's Literature Creation of Nian Hong Under the Perspective of Adult

Abstract

Nian Hong is an established Children’s Literature author of Malaysia, actively publishing since Malaysia’s independence in 1957 till today. With 86 Children’s Literature works under his belt, he has been actively promoting Malaysian Chinese Children’s Literature and founded the Literary Arts Research Association of South Malaya. His contributions to the field garnered praise and affirmation by domestic and international institutions, with him being invited to deliver lectures on the topic of Children’s Literature in various countries. Through close reading, this text attempts to analyse the child characters in Nian Hong’s stories, investigate how his works are educating its young readers through the perspective of an adult, explore the reasons behind him shaping characters morality from the expectations of traditional Chinese culture and how writing from the adult perspective influenced the field of Malaysian Children's Literature in that era.

Keywords: Nian Hong, Malaysian Chinese literature, Chinese children’s literature, child’s point of view, perspective of adult