南国西潮:香港早期文学评论与境外文学思潮

Western Inspirations: Early Hong Kong Literary Criticism and Foreign Literary Trends

首辑《香港文学大系》以1919年到1949年为辑选范围,不少学界中人投以怀疑的目光,认为1949年以前香港文化落后,文学园地贫瘠,应该没什么数据可以集成一辑。然而,《大系》编辑同寅却在辛勤追索搜寻之后,发现早年香港文学的创作文本以至文学论述的相关资料,实在非常丰富。以《文学评论》卷为例,可见当年香港不仅是各种文学论争的平台,更是外国思潮引进的基地。用两个实例可以说明:一者早在五四新文化运动中,已见有香港的身影;再者从1930年代香港出版的一本文学杂志所见,其视野极其开阔,多方引入文学的西潮。由此观之,香港作为文化空间,能够培育出一些政治和文艺思想都非常前卫勇进的文化人,也能够让不同文化思潮在此交汇碰撞。

The first series of Compendium of Hong Kong Literature was intended to cover the period 1919—1949. Many academics cast doubts over this because they think the cultural backwardness had probably caused a literarily unproductive situationin Hong Kong in the years before 1949,so it is impossible to find enough articles to fill up a literary anthology. However,the Compendium editors' painstaking searching revealed that early Hong Kong literary works as well as literary narratives were in abundance. For example,the volume Literary Criticism shows that Hong Kong was a platform where various literary debates were held; it was also a focal point where foreign trends were imported. By using two concrete examples,this paper illustrates that one can observe a silhouette of Hong Kong in the May Forth New Cultural Movement. Moreover,a literary magazine published in Hong Kong in the 1930 s demonstrated an extraordinarily broad scope in introducing various Western ideas. We can thus see that Hong Kong,as a cultural space where different cultural trends converge and collide,has the ability of cultivating intellectuals with progressive and bold ideas of politics and literature.