出刊年月/Date of Publishing

2009.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第39卷第3期 Vol. 39, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
Considering the Case of Hong Ying’s K: The Art of Love: Home, Exile and Reconciliations
虹影的《英國情人》：家園、流亡與和解

作者/Author
杜菲益 Philip Tew

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 389-411

摘要
本文討論虹影作品的基本形式：美學自我與意識型態和文化認同的對立，以及藝術轉化和律法的衝突。這些形式在《背叛的夏》裡展現為主角林穎的六四經驗，特別是在林穎對北京年輕的自由派藝術菁英裸舞的那一段，凸顯了她對優渥學生和警察所代表的父權秩序的反抗。總地來說，本文探索家園、想望、流亡以及和解等主題，並討論《英國情人》這部小說如何萃取一段在日軍侵華與中國內戰背景下，連結中國與英國布倫茲伯里藝文圈的塵封往事，並描寫一九三○年代一場在認同與創意之間的掙扎，如何透過兩個知識分子和作家 (即英國人貝爾與武漢大學院長的妻子) 之間的不倫戀來表達。這兩個主題都呈現了波西米亞前衛運動的一些面向。我將小說開場描述貝爾死於西班牙內戰的場景詮釋為小說中鬼魅與創傷的斷裂，而小說正是以這樣的方式和布倫茲伯里藝文圈建立起密切的關連。同時，我也將討論依附欲望之下的犧牲、暴力和死亡，還有族裔文化認同，怪誕分身，以及母性等主題。最後，透過小說對失落、想望、自我發現和熱情的描述，我認為小說交織著陌生與熟悉之物，協商家園與流亡，並透過跨文化的死亡書寫來投射更巨大的，更具普世價值的人性和解。

Abstract
This essay initially considers central patterns in Hong Ying’s work, including: the aesthetic self in opposition to ideological and cultural identity; and, artistic metamorphosis and its inevitable confrontation with forces underlying the rule of law, which in Summer of Betrayal involves protagonist Ling Ying in the events of June 1989 in Tiananmen Square and their aftermath. Part of Beijing’s young, liberal artistic elite she finally dances naked in defiance of both privileged fellow students, and the police as representing an overarching patriarchal order. Overall this piece explores themes of home, longing, exile and reconciliation in K: The Art of Love, and how its author retrieves a forgotten episode linking China and Bloomsbury— against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion and Chinese Civil War—and sketches a struggle for identity and creativity in the 1930s through her depiction of the illicit love affair between two intellectuals and writers, Englishman Julian Bell and the wife of his Dean at Wuhan University. Both represent aspects of Bohemian avant-garde intellectual movements. Tew reads in detail the novel’s opening describing Bell’s death in the Spanish Civil War, and the texts sense of the spectral and traumatic rupture which both haunt the lovers, underpinning the narrative’s visceral relationship to Bloomsbury. Also considered are themes of sacrifice, violence and death underlying libidinous desire, ethnic and cultural identity, uncanny doublings, and the maternal. Finally through its depiction of loss, longing, self-discovery and passion, the novel can be regarded as interfusing the exotic and the familiar, reconciling home and exile, and through an intercultural ars moriendi it suggests aesthetically larger, universal, humanistic reconciliations.

關鍵字/Key Word
虹影、中英文化關係、布倫茲伯里藝文圈、創傷、鬼魅
Hong Ying, Anglo-Chinese intercultural relations, Bloomsbury, trauma, spectrality

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學門分類/Subject
文學 Literature