重审中国现代文学的“半殖民”语境:以史书美的研究为中心

Rethinking the Semi-colonial Context of Modern Chinese Literature: Taking Shih Shu-mei's Study as an Example

本文以史书美的《现代的诱惑》为中心,重审了海外世界有关半殖民观念的研讨。文章分析了其同殖民、次殖民及超殖民等观念的异同,指出半殖民所表征的不仅仅是中国现代文学发生的语境、背景,它更与中国现代文学发生了相互定义的关系,从时间、空间、性别和主体四个层面构形了现代文学的思考和表述。但是,这种文学的丰富性,不应该被简单地等同于半殖民相对自由的恩赐,因为这从根本上涂抹了它的帝国主义特质。

Centered on Shih Shu-mei＇s book The Lure of the Modern, this paper reviews the overseas studies on Semi-colonial China, analyzes the similarities and differences among colony, subcolony / hypo-colony, and hypercolony, and points out that the semi- colony is not only the background of modem Chinese literature, but also defines it from the four dimensions of time, space, gender and agency. However, this mutually defining rich- ness of literature can never be regarded as a semi-colonial gift handed out freely, which will fundamentally conceal the imperialism of semi-colony.