Study of Writing by Female Authors of Children’s Books in Taiwan between 1960 and 1979

• Main Authors: SHIH, Hsin-Yu, 施忻妤
• Other Authors: HSU, Chien-Kun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67124217589372946969

碩士 === 東海大學 === 中國文學系 === 97 === Female authors of children’s books often have to take care of their families when writing. Therefore, greater perseverance and patience are required. Women have to pay more to achieve the same accomplishments. Women began to have a power in life, writing and publication. In the development of children’s literature in Taiwan, female authors had a great number of works from 1960 to 1979. The paper arranges the data of twenty-one female authors in Taiwan in the hope to supplement historical data of children’s literature and reviews the children’s books then in the hope to the female authors’ ideas in writing and types of material selection to explore articles’ border-crossing and permeation as well as theme styles and atmosphere of the era. The paper is divided into six chapters. The first one, Introduction, explains the study motive, reviews achievements of earlier researchers and explains study methods and purposes. The second, Female Authors of Children’s Books from 1960 to 1979, illustrates authors’ life, composition identities, and writing of children’s books in the hope to understand writing environment back then in Taiwan. Chapter III, Text, is divided into family and school life, memories of childhood and feelings of the hometown, stories in the past and folk legends, notes in life and encouragement in growth. The four dimensions explore writing of essays and life stories. The fourth, Wings of Imagination, discusses writing of children’s books to understand implicit life in works, fun of folk legends and imagination stories and experience love and friendship in animal stories. From the stories by foreign authors, it is found that female authors also did transportation in addition to writing. Chapter V contains singing of children’s songs, reading of children’s poems to explore children s’ songs and poems by earlier female authors in Taiwan who enriched composition of the categories with fairy tales and essays into poems. Chapter VI is Conclusions. In addition to identifying with literature values of earlier female authors of children’s books in Taiwan, the paper also attempts to establish the writing history. These authors developed earlier children’ literature theory. Cross-border and transformation of permeation can be seen the literature category. Children’s books are for children and they often contain implicit education theme. Works then were in simple texts and single statements. They were the results of female authors from their hearts. Such works to be blueprint of education of language for children now will be of profound meaning.