二十世纪上半叶，五四运动引领中国思想解放浪潮，西方作家作品与现代文学观念得到广泛译介。受其影响，文坛涌现大批女性作家，她们在文学创作的路途中不断摸索，形成了自身的独特风格与大量优秀作品。其中，自传体小说成为了许多女性作家青睐的文体，而童年生活则成为许多作家共同书写的内容。成稿于1940 年香港的《呼兰河传》（萧红），动笔自1938 年四川、发表于1953 年英国的《古韵》（凌叔华），以及出版于1960 年台湾的《城南旧事》（林海音）均为女性自传体小说中的代表作品。虽然三名作家出身迥异，童年经历也大不相同，但三篇作品却展现了惊人的内在一致性：作者用温情的笔触、干净的语言追溯自己人生的最初阶段，以儿童的视角展示特定历史时期的社会现状与时代变迁。值得关注的是，三篇作品都具有鲜明的女性主义色彩。女孩在二十世纪初的中国拥有怎样的生活，当时的女性普遍经历着怎样的困难与觉醒，童年经历对于三名作家的未来创作有怎样的影响？三篇作品不仅承载着作家个人的生命体验，也留下了属于女性群体与社会整体的独特历史印记。论文将运用文本细读的方法对《呼兰河传》、《古韵》与《城南旧事》进行案例研究，通过对三篇文本内容的共时性分析与抽离，展现二十世纪初中国女孩的生活状态与社会整体风貌，同时通过总结三篇文本的内容选取与叙事策略，归纳童年叙事在现代女性作家自传体小说中的多维意义，为作家作品与文学史研究提供新的角度。

      论文具体分为以下五个部分：第一章绪论主要介绍选题的背景与价值、研究现状与研究思路；第二章“‘自传体小说’与‘童年叙事’的概念界定”首先理清自传与自传体小说的渊源，对自传体小说进行概念释义，然后探讨童年叙事的定义与内涵；第三章“童年叙事的内容取向”以文本细读的方式，多角度探索三篇作品的相似性与独特性；第四章“童年叙事的作用与价值”，从作家生平、时代发展、故事结构、语言风格、视角选择等方面剖析童年叙事在研究现代女性作家与作品中的意义；第五章结语部分将对全文进行总结梳理，并指出研究现代女性作家自传体小说中的童年叙事的当代意义和本研究的未来改进之处。

During the first half of the 20th century, the May 4th movement led the wave of Chinese ideological emancipation, while western writers’ works and modern literary theories were widely translated into China. In this context, a large number of female writers have emerged in the Chinese literary arena. These female writers have explored the path of literary creation and formed their unique writing style, creating plentiful excellent works. Among the works, autobiographical novel has become the favorite style of many female writers, and childhood life is their preferred theme. The Tales of Hulan River (finished in 1940, Hongkong, by Xiao Hong), Ancient Melodies (started in 1938, Sichuan, and published in 1953, Britain, by Ling Shuhua) and Memories of Peking: South Side Stories (published in 1960, Taiwan, by Lin Haiyin) are representative works of modern female autobiographical novels. Different family background and childhood experiences notwithstanding, the three writers show strong internal consistency in their works: they trace their initial stage of life with tender and evocative language, presenting changes of society in specific historical period from children’s perspective. It is worth noting that the three novels possess distinct feminist color. What life were girls going through, what difficulties and awakening were women generally experiencing in China at the beginning of the 20th century, and what impact did childhood experience have on the future career of the three writers? The three novels not only carry the writers’ personal life experience, but also preserve a testimony to a unique past of the female group and the whole society. This paper utilizes the method of close reading of the texts Tales of Hulan River, Ancient Melodies and Memories of Peking: South Side Stories for case study, through synchronic analysis of the three texts’ content, exhibiting the daily life of Chinese girls and outlook of the society in early 20th century; meanwhile, by summarizing content selection and narrative strategies of the three texts, the paper concludes multidimensional significances of childhood narrative in modern female writers autobiographical novels, and provides a new perspective for future research on the three writers and history of modern literature.

      The paper is composed of the following five parts: the first chapter “Introduction” mainly introduces the background and value of the paper topic, relative research status, as well as the design of this paper; the second chapter “Definitions of ‘autobiographical novel’ and ‘childhood narrative’” first clarifies the relationship between autobiography and autobiographical novel, and then gives the two concepts clear definitions and connotation illuminations; the third chapter “Content orientation of childhood narrative” explores the similarities and differences of the three texts from multiple perspectives by means of close reading; the fourth chapter “Functions and values of childhood narrative” analyzes the significances of childhood narrative in the study of modern female writers and their works from the perspectives of writers’ life, development of history, novel structure, language style and perspective selection; the last chapter “Epilogue” sorts out the whole paper, summarizes the contemporary significance of the thesis and points out improvement of future research.