A Study On Children’s Novels In The Writing Of Anti-japanese War History In The New Century

Since the beginning of the new century,a large number of works with the history of “Anti-Japanese War” as the main content have emerged in the field of novel creation.Meanwhile,in the field of children’s literature besides adult literature,children’s novels about the history of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression also come back to our vision.Looking back on the development of Chinese children’s literature,especially children’s novels,the historical theme of revolutionary war has been one of the two major themes of children’s novels.However,after decades of prosperity,this kind of children’s literature about the history of the war gradually fell silent in the 1980 s,and only in the new century did it usher in a new peak of creation,especially reflecting the history of the Anti-Japanese War.Compared with the previous children’s novels with war themes,the children’s novels with war themes in the new century have got rid of the writing of national collective experience under the grand narrative,and returned to the concept of “Children’s Standard”,starting from the perspective of childhood,and “Rewriting” the history of the war with the personalized narrative under the background of war.Most writers choose to turn their perspective from the battlefield and return to the more common survival and living conditions of children in the war environment,so as to show their life experience and spiritual growth under the impact of the war.It can be said that the children’s novels about the history of the Anti-Japanese War in the new century have changed in the purpose,content,expression and aesthetic spirit,which not only show the transcendence of the previous novels of the same type,but also show the unique character that distinguishes them from the adult war literature.Therefore,this paper takes the children’s novels in the history of the Anti-Japanese War in the new century as the research object to explain what contents are written in such works,how they are presented and the significance of such presentation,so as to have a more comprehensive and clear understanding of the transcendence.This paper will be divided into the following parts:The introduction firstly summarizes the writing characteristics of Anti-Japanese War children’s novels in different historical stages from a vertical perspective,so as to see the uniqueness and transcendence of Anti-Japanese War children’s novels in the new century,and explain the background and value of the thesis.Secondly,the research status of children’s novels on the theme of Anti-Japanese War in the new century will be sorted out,on this basis,the significance of this study is explained.Finally,based on the above analysis and summary of the creation and research of children’s novels with the theme of Anti-Japanese War in the new century,the main viewpoints,research ideas and methods of this paper are put forward,and the relevant research objects are defined to illustrate the text scope of children’s novels with the theme of Anti-Japanese War to be discussed.The text is divided into three chapters.The first chapter will examine the phenomenon of the revival of “AntiJapanese War” writing in the new century from the perspective of the history of Anti-Japanese War in Chinese children’s literature.The writing of the history of AntiJapanese War in children’s novels in the new century has changed the previous narrative mode of “Hero’s Growth” under the guidance of “National Standard”,from the war under the background of the individual perspective,the performance of wartime children the survival state of the flow,emotional,and spiritual growth,greatly broadening the boundaries of literary performance,realized from describing “War of Children” to “Children in the War”.The second chapter discusses the writing strategies of children’s novels with the theme of Anti-Japanese War in the new century.This paper makes an in-depth analysis of the Anti-Japanese War children’s novels in the new century from four aspects: image building and human nature writing,the presentation of children’s daily life and game life,the desalination of war’s complexity and cruelty,and the adult voice behind children’s perspective.The “Non-heroization” of children’s images and the reversal of the evaluation of the characters of the binary opposition of “Good” and “Evil” are the prominent manifestations in the characterization and human nature writing of children’s novels with historical themes of the Anti-Japanese War in the new century.In terms of content and plot,the historical writing of Anti-Japanese War in the new century goes beyond the logic of “Militarization” of Anti-Japanese War writing in the past,and shows a broader picture of social life and daily life in the war environment.While children’s games provide a special way of existence for children and their childhood life in the war.Children also get great energy to resist the invasion of violence in the adult world.At the same time,in the context of children’s literature,the AntiJapanese War writing in the new century tries to minimize the cruelty of the war and the pain of the trauma,so as to ensure the psychological security of children readers through the careful selection of narrative perspectives and the placement of death scenes.However,the adult observer hiding behind the child’s perspective will make necessary supplement to the narrative gap generated by the child’s perspective through his own experience and value judgment.The third chapter discusses the value connotation of the history of Anti-Japanese War in the context of children’s literature.First of all,the personalized writing of the history of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression is a revision and supplement to the “Childhood in Collective Experience” under the traditional grand narrative,which enricks our historical memory of childhood in the war.Secondly,this writing about the sufferings of war history is also a great demonstration of the spirit of childhood with “Love” and “Hope” as the core,and this spirit of childhood is the ultimate force to help mankind transcend the sufferings of life.The conclusion firstly affirms that the children’s novels with the theme of Anti-Japanese War since the new century have become a part of the world’s children’s war literature with their Chinese experience of war trauma.At the same time,it also points out that the creation of children’s novels on the theme of Anti-Japanese War in the new century also shows some deficiencies due to some objective reality or subjective factors.In the frame of reference of the world’s excellent children’s war novels,we can find that the Anti-Japanese War history in Chinese children’s novels has some deficiencies in the depth of reflection on the war and the degree of attention to the war trauma.These problems are not only the shortcomings in the writing of the history of the Anti-Japanese War,but also the derection and breakthrough of the future writing efforts.