不安、厌世与自我退隐:南来文人的香港书写——从1950年代出发

1950年代前后,为数众多的文人开始启程离开大陆南向香港,架构了史上另一波的流动轴线。这一波南来文人力匡、贝娜苔、赵滋蕃、易文、徐訏等建构故乡─香港─异国─香港移动踪迹与书写墨痕,透过文人们生就具有的创作冲动交出可观的在地书写。这些作品字里行间所流露的不安、厌倦、自我退缩现象,在在指向了西美尔(Georg Simmel)"麻木"厌倦的心理保护机制论点,这为我们提供了重新思考南来文人重生或再生、归去或归来的刻画过程。在处境上这些南来文人并非一般认知的强者主体,反而是孤独、无助者。以此为视角,证成他们如何以书写呈现较少被视见的自保机制成为外显传媒的中介,进而铭刻异变时空下文人独特的心事与命运。

Insecurity,Pessimism,and Reserve: How the 1950s Literati from Mainland Write in Hong Kong

Around 1950,there was an immigration wave of mainland literati to Hong Kong,including such right-wing men of letters as Li Kuang,Romulus Yang,Zhan Zifan,Evan Yang,and Xu Xu.This paper explores how these writers have produced many works of ingenuity,and proposes that Hong Kong,in a symbolic way,serves as a literary locality standing for traits of insecurity,pessimism,and reserve for them.These characteristics,as mechanisms on psychological protection,can be read in the light of Georg Simmel’s idea of blasé.By examining how these migrant intellectuals either regenerate or revive,emigrate or return,this paper argues that they "convert" to literature to protect themselves but end up enriching the history and the destiny of Hong Kong.They are,after all,not the majority but the minority who suffer from loneliness and helplessness.If their writings suggest rejection and misidentification to us,we could be reminded that exile conditions their very writing;they do not mean to write so in the beginning.This paper,accordingly,will prove how writing translates the life experiences and mood of migrant literati,manifesting the spatial-temporal changes in the context.