世纪末“女妖”图鉴——《世纪末的华丽》与《愫细怨》中的都市女性想象

A Pictorial Book of the Fin deSiècle ’Female Monsters’:Urban Female Imagination in End of a Century:Miea’s Story and Yi ye you:Xianggang de gu shi

当代台港女性作家对于都市女性的想象与书写是对“五四”女性写作精神的继承与超越,她们致力于还原当代都市的生活图景,通过世俗图景中的个体生存经验与精神际遇,审视性道德与观念的迭代以及此间产生的伦理悖论,一方面解构父权抒情传统,一方面反省复杂暧昧的现代道德与生活原则,她们书写的终极旨归还是对女性生存的关照,和对现代人文精神的呼应。朱天文与施叔青分别以台北和香港为背景,以写实主义的清醒锐利和现代主义的先锋精神,从两种截然不同的角度呈现世纪末的繁华中都市女性的想象与经验,对照出理想与现实的鸿沟,和背后都市文明的发展对女性精神际遇与生存状态的复杂影响,不乏省觉与人文关怀。

The imagination and writing of urban females by contemporary women writers in Taiwan and Hong Kong are an inheritance of and transcendence over the women writing spirit in the May Fourth as they are committed to restoring the contemporary urban living landscape to its original state and examining the overlapping of sexual ethics and concepts with the resultant ethical paradoxes through the individual living experience and spiritual encounters in the secular landscape.Their writing deconstructs the lyrical tradition of patriarchy while reflecting on the complex and ambiguous modern morality and living principles, with the final purpose of being concerned with female existence, which corresponds with the modern spirit of humanism.With Taipei and Hong Kong as their respective backgrounds, and with the sharpness of realism and the avant-garde spirit of modernism, Chu T’ien-wen and Shih Shu-ching represent the imagination and experience of urban women in prosperous cities at the end of the century, from two vastly different angles, showing the gap between idealism and realities as well as the complex influence over the women’s spiritual experience and living state in the development of urban civilisation, with no lack of enlightenment and humanistic concerns.