身体·性·忏悔——评日本新华侨女作家陈永和《一九七九年纪事》

Body,Sexuality,Confessions:Comments on Woman Writer and New Oversea Chinese in Japan Chen Yonghe's Chronicle of 1979

日本新华侨女作家陈永和以"女扮男装"的"我"叙述历史,通过"身体"书写特殊时期底层人物的命运,审视身体与身份、权力、性的重重纠葛,特别是揭示了从性虐到享虐的女性悲剧。不同于往常灵魂深处闹革命的《一九七九年纪事》,以身体性忏悔的冷静,对当今社会具有现代性意义的问题进行深入探讨。可以说这是日本华文文学对中国文学所奉献的一点"收获"。

Woman writer and new oversea Chinese in Japan Chen Yonghe tells the story in the tone of a male＂I＂. Starting from the＂body＂,she depicts the fate of those deprived in a special historical period,pondering the entanglement of body,identity,power and sexuality. Her story is a female tragedy from sexual abuse to masochistic pleasure. Different from those radical revolutionary accounts of that time,the body and sexual confessions in Chronicle of 1979 is remarkably cool- headed,and contains in- depth enquiries into modernity issues which are of great significance to contemporary society. Chen＇s writings can be regarded as precious＂harvest＂of oversea Chinese in Japan literature to Chinese literature.