三本美國兒童繪本中的敘事、圖像再現及中國移民經驗

105年07月01日 

研究生：陳志翰

指導教授: 王瀚陞 博士

三本美國兒童繪本中的敘事、圖像再現及中國移民經驗

Storytelling, Graphical Representations, and Chinese Immigration Experience in Three American Children’s Picture Books

摘要:

     在兒童教育中，繪本是一項相當重要的工具，獨特地融合文字與圖像來呈現故事。兒童繪本故事融合敘事與圖像藝術兩主特質及兒童經驗。本論文檢視三本兒童繪本的作者及作品，他們如何運用繪本的獨特性，再現一個更真實、正面的十九世紀中國移民形象。這些作品回應當代亞裔美籍作家使用修正主義的方式，重新呈現正確的歷史形象。這本論文期望審視《苦力》、《登陸》、《金山上的橘子》三本兒童繪本的中國移民經驗，以及繪本如何以圖像和文字藝術再現兒童移民到美國追求夢想的經驗。

     這些作者重新檢驗歷史並在作品中重塑中國兒童移民離鄉背井的心境、遭受到不平等的待遇和種族歧視、並修正過去美國醜化華人移民的形象。透過審視這三位作家重塑十九世紀中國兒童移民的形象，重現他們穿越太平洋到美國工作時遭遇的情況，本論文認為這三本童書重塑了中國兒童的離散經驗。

關鍵字: 敘事、圖像再現、童年經驗、中國移民 

Abstract:

     As an important tool in children’s education, picture books unfold stories to their reader both verbally and visually. Picture books thus register a realm where storytelling, graphical representations, and Chinese immigration experiences come into play. To respond to the revisionist approaches employed by contemporary Asian American writers, these writers of children’s picture books come up with more authentic, positive images of Chinese immigrants than those inadequate images presented in the nineteenth century. This thesis thus examines how Chinese immigration experience is represented through the graphic and verbal arts in Coolies, Landed, and Oranges on Golden Mountain, three picture books retelling the stories of Chinese children’s immigration to the United States to pursue their dreams.

     These three writers re-examined and represented young Chinese immigrants who left their native land, suffered unfair treatments, and were discriminated. By this way the three writers revised the conventional negative images of Chinese immigrants. Exploring the revisionist efforts made by these three writers, this thesis argues that the three picture books offer more realistic portrayals of diasporic experiences undergone by young Chinese immigrants crossing the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century.

Keywords: picture books, storytelling, graphical representations, childhood experiences, Chinese immigration