黄碧云“烈性”小说的叙述策略

From Portraits of Women to Biographies of Man-the Narrative Strategy of the Indomitable Vitality Series Novels by Huang Biyun

香港作家黄碧云的小说《烈女图》与《烈佬传》作为具有互文性的两部文本,皆以“烈”字点题,采用口述作为叙述策略来绘制香港底层群体的浮世绘。尽管两部文本呈现出“暴烈”与“温柔”迥异的叙述风格,但是共同指向作者对于历史想象重构与底层命运观照的创作决心。从创伤表露、口述策略与叙述风格三方面来分析“烈性”小说的记叙策略,可以体悟历史变迁下底层群体在万般苦难下所迸发的坚韧不屈的“烈性”特质。

Lie Nv Tu(Portraits of Woman) and Legend of Lie Lao(Biographies of Man), two books which are intertextual by the Hong Kong writer Huang Biyun, both features “Lie”(the indomitable vitality) as their themes and both use oral account as the narrative strategy to depict the life of the grassroots in Hong Kong. Although the narrative style of Portraits of Woman is more violent and that of Biographies of Man gentler, they both showcase the author’s resolve for the reconstruction of historical imagination and for her care for people in the bottom strata in the writing. This paper analyzes the narrative strategy of Huang’s indomitable vitality series novels from three aspects: trauma presentation, oral narrative and narrative style, and understands the underclass characteristic of the unyielding vitality through various sufferings in historical changes.