香港小说中的城市想象与想象中的香港城市

Metropolitan Imaginary in Hong Kong's Novels and the Imaginary Hong Kong

在摆脱殖民地身份及实现现代化、工业化转型的历史时期中,香港小说中关于城市的想象经历了几个阶段的变迁。从长期以来基于被殖民身份产生的"失城"意识,到经济转型期前后顺应本土化趋势形成的"我城"观念,再到回归前夕不知何去何从的"浮城"心态,作家们通过各种方式对这座城市进行着重建与重塑,引导着人们对于香港的理解与想象。香港小说中不断强化的城市意识和在此基础上逐渐成型的城市想象,极大地唤起、回应并巩固了港人的本土自觉性,从而帮助香港建构起独立而有特色的城市文化品格与城市文学形象。

Metropolitan imaginary in Hong Kong's Novels had correspondingly experienced several phases during the city's metamorphosis of a peripheral British colony to the realization of modernization and industrialization as well as its severance with the imposed colonial identity. Generally,there ever existed three inclinations dominating in the psyche of the Hong Kong people in different historical eras,viewed from the perspective of their searching for identity in a city-state such as Hong Kong:'city of alienation' during the long colonial age;'city of home' nourished by the native sensibility during the economic boom; 'city of anxiety'prior to Hong Kong's handover to China. As witnesses of these historical events and moments, writers in Hong Kong had, in a variety of ways,invested literary efforts all along reconstructing and reshaping the city as well as piloting the understanding and imagination of the city. The accentuating city consciousness in Hong Kong's novels and the city imaginary molded out of the former greatly arouse, reverberate and uphold the locals' awareness of nativity,and thus assist in building an independent and unique city personality culturally and literarily.