启蒙话语的异域回旋——论司马文森、巴人的南洋叙事及其意义

The Convoluting of Enlightenment Discourse in Other Land: A Study on the Narrative of Nan Yang in Sima-Wensen and Ba Ren's Works

司马文森与巴人基于启蒙视野而形成的南洋叙事,对晚清以来的启蒙话语既有追随、挪用,也根据异域经验进行了修正、改写,开启了华侨华人历史叙事的新起点。这种建立在继承基础上的重生、衍变过程可称为回旋。回旋是对关联与运动性的重视、强调影响的迂回路线、强调继承和流变的交织;它意味着异域经验的融入,往往不是使文学创作骤然远离原有传统,而是在传统与新的创作旨趣的融合中,开拓新的发展路径。这一类作品的价值难以在原有传统中得到准确评价,需要从异域经验与文学创作的关系视野出发重新定位。对司马文森和巴人南洋叙事的意义探寻也是如此。

The narrative of NanY ang in SimaWensen and Ba Ren's works were in the Sight of enlightenment. They not only followed and diverted the enlightenment discourse since the late Qing dynasty,but also revised and rewrote it according their experiments of Nan Yang,and constructed a new narrative mode of history writing of overseas Chinese. The reproducing and transformation of tradition based succeeding would be convoluting.Convoluting means relation and motility are same important,means the zigzag path of influence,and the interweaving between succeeding and reform.Convoluting also mean that the alien factor in works was not change the tradition immediately;but the merging between tradition and new writing target would produce a new sight of literature. The value of these texts were not found in the old tradition,but we would give them a correct position through the sight that how the experience of other land to affect writing. It's just the way to find the value of narrative of NanY ang in Sima-Wensen and Ba Ren's works.