两种现代性?——冷战初期两岸小说初论

Two Kinds of Modernity?——A Preliminary View of Fiction on Either Side of the Taiwan Strait in the Cold War Period

两岸三地文学在1949年以后的发展,究竟是"分道扬镳",还是近代以来中国人所选择的不同的现代性路线的开展?这是一个很值得探讨的问题。迄今为止的文学史论述,几乎都侧重于前者,即在"分道扬镳"的分析模式下,以己之是非为是非,因而无法在一个相对"完整"的历史视野中观察彼此的异同。本文试以最具有近代政治色彩的五十年代小说作为观察的对象,从"现代性"在两岸开展的角度,揭示出表面上充满了差异的两岸小说所隐藏着的内在的关联。五十年代小说所反映或构建起来的新的历史与文化结构,恐怕只有在近代的时空脉络中,才能看的比较清楚。本文试以陈纪滢、周立波、张爱玲和丁玲创作的四部长篇小说作为讨论对象,对这些问题做初步的讨论,以期引起批评和更加深入的关注。

It is an issue worthy of exploration whether literatures of two banks and three places（in China's Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan） should go their separate ways or whether they are developments along different modem routes as chosen by Chinese people. To date, nearly all discussions of literary history seem to bias towards the latter, in the divisive mode of analysis, based on one＇s own views, negative or positive, making it difficult to observe each other＇s differences in a relatively ＂complete＂ historical perspective. This paper attempts to reveal the inner connections hidden in the fictions on either side of the Taiwan Strait that seem full of differences on the surface by observing the politieal-coloured fiction written in the 1950s from the perspectives of how＂modernity＂was developed on either side of the Taiwan Strait. It is perhaps possible to gain a clearer view of the new historical and cultural structure as reflected or constructed in the 1950s fiction in the veins of modem space. This paper attempts to discuss four novels, respectively by Chen Jiying, Zhou Libo, Zhang Ailing and Ding Ling in a preliminary discussion, hopefully to induce criticism of and deeper attention to these issues.