拉德亚德·吉卜林的儿童作品不但有生命力,且内涵深刻,既富含作者本人对大英帝国的海外殖民统治的迷茫,也有这位生于殖民地的“帝国主义”作家本身所面临的身份困惑。从其在不同创作阶段最受人欢迎的儿童作品出发,结合后殖民主义理论分析,可以探寻出作家从在文化融合和种族优越感之间摇摆到最终回归本民族的“根”的心路历程。 Radhad Kipling’s children’s works are not only viable but also profound in content. They contain both the author’s own confusion about the overseas colonial rule of the British Empire and the “” imperialist “author himself in the colony Faced with identity confusion. From its most popular children’s works in different stages of creation, combined with the analysis of post-colonial theory, we can find out the writer’s mentality from ”swinging between cultural fusion and racial superiority to eventually returning to the nation" course.