融合之域·香港文学史的构筑——论《香港文学大系1919—1949》

Constructing Hong Kong Literary History as a Site of Integration:On A Critical Study of Literary Criticism in Early Hong Kong Literature(1919—1949)

香港,一座参与了百年来中国历史裂变的城市。从文化地理空间而言,香港虽处边缘,却深刻地纪录了百年来中西文化的变迁与演绎,不仅敷演了中国从晚清以来的文化流变,更汇流了殖民主义带来的西方知识系谱,这块土地上不断地重复着人、文化、政治、思潮的越界并积累成重层的历史记忆,镶嵌在变动的时间中。中国学者在"九七"的历史时限前,以中国文学为母体召唤香港文化,书写香港文学史;进入21世纪后,因回归赋予的正统化,香港文学研究成为中国文学研究框架下的分支。就在香港文学史问世30年之久的2009年,由现任香港教育大学的陈国球教授任总主编,开始编选香港在地的首套《香港文学大系1919—1949》。十二卷的大系从2009年着手,2016年全部完成出版后,7月由香港商务印书馆出版了《导言集》。将附于各选集之前的导言汇整成集,以利读者所用,同时也提供不同读者群阅读线索,有效地引导读者进入"香港文学",并且给予"史"的建构。不仅纵向承继了中国文学史传统,在形式、内容上则又注入西方的文学批评养分,鲜明地展示着香港文学的独特性,也呼应自身重层的历史经历。

Hong Kong is a city that witnessed the course of socio-political upheaval of modern China. Though located at the geographical and cultural periphery of Chinese history, Hong Kong was the center of Sino-Western Cultural encounters.It not only captured Chinese cultural transformation since late Qing but also the imperial systems of knowledge of the West. This is a land where its people, culture, politics, and systems of thoughts cross boundaries and become historical memories. At the brink of Hong Kong＇s transfer in 1997, Chinese scholars first wrote Hong Kong literature back into Chinese literary history. In the twenty-first century, Hong Kong literature officially becomes a minor field of Chinese literary studies. Thirty years after the history of Hong Kong literature was written, Professor Chan Kwok Kou Leonard of the Education University of Hong Kong started editing A Critical Study of Literary Criticism in Early Hong Kong Literature（1919—1949） in 2009. The first of its kind, this twelve-volume collection was published by The Commercial Press of Hong Kong in 2016. In July of the same year, Collection of Critical Introductions was published to facilitate readers of diverse backgrounds with Hong Kong literature and its literary history. Through the long traditions of both Chinese literary history and Western literary criticism, this collection reveals a unique Hong Long literature that reflects its multiple histories and cultural identities.