董啟章的城市創作觀與書寫實踐

Abstract

九○年代，董啟章自〈安卓珍尼〉與《雙身》於台灣獲得文學大獎之後，首先以女性書寫引起評論者的注目。然而，自以上兩部女性書寫之後，董啟章的作品即轉向以城市為核心，於香港出版了「Ｖ城系列」數本小書，爾後即以Ｖ城的故事與人物貫徹所有小說。而董啟章散點式的書寫形式，亦使其各部作品猶如一巨型的長篇小說，小說與小說之間看似獨立成書，卻隱然環環相扣、時有互涉，無論是書寫形式或內容，皆呈現出極為繁複深刻的面貌。從2005至2010年，董啟章更在短短五年內陸續出版了其鉅作《自然史三部曲》。在這三部大書之中，董啟把時空交錯、文本互涉、女性書寫、人物展演、城市歷史、物質書寫、Ｖ城人的生存處境等命題全概括其中，以想像建構了比真實更真、比真實更繁雜的虛構世界。繁華的香港，衍生出董啟章如此傑出的作家，再使董啟章創造出對應著真實而存在的巨大文本。城市予其書寫而言，到底扮演著什麼角色？ 本論文將以「城市書寫」的角度，分析董啟章的創作觀，觀察董啟章從城市，以及其他物質如《清明上河圖》、《東京夢華錄》中獲得啟發，進而把城市模式實踐在其書寫上。同時也反向思考，從“城市�香港”的歷史、特性、空間、社會演變等角度切入，分析董啟章的小說與城市所產生的互涉現象。最後，再探討董啟章以城市為核心的創作觀，擁有回旋往復的時間模式，以闡明董啟章城市創作觀及書寫實踐背後的毀滅與重生。

This study examines the city literature vision of the Hong Kong novelist, Kai-Cheung Dong, and analyze the unique vision of Dong as a global city novelist who has been under the impact of Globalism and Capitalism. And explain how is the influential of the city’s development appeared in his novel, and how is the urban regional phenomena from past to present relates with his narrative style as well as literature theme. The thesis start from illustrating the Hong Kong’s history from the colonial period by British which has cause the essential politic agitation to Hong Kong. The Politic Reformation by British to Hong Kong had left a defining affect to Hong Kong’s future development especially the happening of Urban Revolutionary from the 90s which has lead to the disappearance of space in city. And the phenomenon left by the Capitalism broughts the local action to an new era and evokes the standing of Hong Kong Nativism Power. The variation of Hong Kong’s history in fact affected the development of Hong Kong’s literature , and this definitely affected the narrative style of Kai-Cheung Dong’s novel. The following chapter is focusing on Dong’s unique narrative style. Kai-Cheung Dong is first known by his feminism writing but his“ city vision” and composition subject had totally took place in his novel soon after his award-wining《安卓珍尼》. He adopted an unique style of novel fabrication and has fully interpret the concept of “fiction”. And the purpose of his fiction style is to reveal the power of human’s imagination to help the Hongkist to create an opening view of perception instead of continuously trapped in the stagnant condition no matter is in politic or human development in Hong Kong. Kai-Cheung Dong’s novel demonstrated the outstanding of materialistic. And Dong had fully converted the nature of “material”into his novel. Instead of writing or getting inspiration by“material”, Kai-Cheung Dong intends to “imitate” from those “material” that used to appeared in a city. There are “imitation”from the past vision of 《清明上河圖》,《東京夢華錄》as well as Bach Classical Music’s variation style and etc. found in Dong’s novel. The imitation of Dong was divided to the Form of Art and Artistic Spirit. From the numerous elaboration of art work such as Primavera of Botticelli and The Garden of Earthly Delights of Bosch in Dong’s novel, Kai-Cheung Dong has created his own style of narrating. In addition, from the imitation from past, Kai-Cheung Dong created a brand new concept of time. The timeline in Dong’s novel has a circle movement and this is to break the continuously movement of linear time and created a“ loop” for the city that may revamp the unchangeable mistake which has cause the negative growing for the city’s development.