「世界中」的中國文學

Worlding Literary China

王德威(David Der-Wei Wang)

《中國現代文學》 31期 (2017/06) Pp. 1-26

摘要

當代中國對文學史的關注為國際學界所僅見。這不僅是因為傳統對「文」與「史」的重視其來有自，也和目前學科建制、知識管理、甚至文化生產息息相關。尤其當代文學史的編寫與閱讀更與政治氛圍形成微妙對話。本文藉哈佛版《新編中國現代文學史》（2017）為例，說明中國「現代」與「文學史」的互動意義，並以海德格的「世界中」概念作為重新理解「文」、「史」的批判性切入點。據此，《新編中國現代文學史》藉以下四個主題，進一步描述「世界中」的中國文學：時空的「互緣共構」；文化的「穿流交錯」；「文」與媒介衍生；文學與地理版圖想像。

關鍵字

文學史 ； 文 ； 「世界中」 ； 再現 ； 彰顯

並列摘要

This essay seeks to discuss the writing and reading of literary history as a unique phenomenon in Chinese studies. Such a phenomenon has to do with not only the deeply ingrained relationships between literature and history in premodern China, but also the contemporary treatment of literary history as a scholastic discipline, a type of knowledge, and a form of cultural production. With Harvard's A New Literary History of Modern China as a case-in-point, the essay calls attention to the premodern concept of literature or wen in light of the Heideggerian concept of ＂worlding＂. It argues that wen is not so much an articulation of the meaning of the world through a set of correlating ideas, objects, or doings, as an agency that continuously opens up new configurations of the world. It introduces the following four themes of ＂worlding Chinese literature＂: architectonics of temporalities; dynamics of travel and transculturation; contestation between wen and mediality; remapping of the literary cartography of modern China.

並列關鍵字

literary history ； wen ； worlding ； representation ； manifestation

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