《龍頭鳳尾》是馬家輝「香港三部曲」的第一部,以黑社會背景敘述三、四十年代被殖民的香港,當中的背景正是他土生土長的灣仔。馬家輝把自己所見所聞、熟悉的灣仔建構為對歷史的重新詮釋的空間,同時把他對灣仔的情感投射於其中,塑造灣仔的文化記憶。另一方面,馬家輝透過殖民時期的同性戀關係,建構的「性/別」場域分別表現出殖民者與被殖民者的同性戀情慾關係,與時代環境與從屬地位流動性,突顯殖民時期下社會文化的內部差異,更透過以同性戀身份的「鬼化」敘述策略,突顯對同性戀和英日殖民者的身份象徵,以鬼的身份表現其反抗意識,和在傳統封建觀念影響下視為怪胎、異類的鬼魅「邪現」,也反映當時殖民者與香港人各取所需的相互關係和三、四十年代香港的社會環境。本文以地方感理論與性/別研究的角度對書中的空間書寫與馬家輝之間情感結構的連接,在港臺二地游走的馬家輝對昔日的故土的文化記憶的重組,以及三、四十年代的香港殖民歷史的「重演」。另一部分是在書中的性別情慾的表現,以情慾的表現引發深層的社會問題,以同性戀的性/別建構下,對三、四十年代的香港人身份認同重新詮釋。
Once Upon A Time in Hong Kong is the first part of Ma Ka-fai's "Hong Kong Trilogy". The novel background is his native-Wan Chai and describes the relationship between the colonial government and the triad in 1930s to 1940s. In the novel, He was constructs Wan Chai as a space for reinterpreting history of Hong Kong. During the colonial period, through the homosexual relationship to emphasize the environment of the eras and the mobility of subordinate status. And it lead to internal differences in social culture. This paper will focus on connect the structure of feeling between the spare writing and Ma Ka-fai. In Once Upon A Time in Hong Kong, the author's intends to reshow the 1930s to 1940s colonial history of Hong Kong and reconstruct his cultural memory. The other part of the novel is the expression of sexual desire, which through deep-seated social problems with the expression of sexual desire, and reinterprets the identity of Hong Kong people in the 1930s and 1940s under the construction of homosexuality.