離島的現代性：從〈沒卵頭家〉的疾病／疾病書寫談現代性的矛盾

Modernity of Outlying Island: On the Contradictions of Modernity in Terms of the Disease and Disease Writing in the Novel "Boss Noballs"

唐毓麗(Yu-Li Tang)

《逢甲人文社會學報》 23期 (2011/12) Pp. 49-72

https://doi.org/10.29695/FCJHSS.201112.0003

摘要

本文從牽連繁複的社會網路，探討血絲蟲病入侵黑狗港後，對離島病患的心理、民俗文化、經濟、現代化建設產生的重大影響。本文發現，〈無卵頭家〉顯然把臺灣之外的離島看成是「一個易患病的地域」，把疾病當成辯證臺灣現代性內涵及其矛盾的最佳途徑，提出療癒邊緣、反省本島的論點，連帶直指現代醫學可能帶來的衝突，具有反思現代性的重要意義。本文深入闡述〈無卵頭家〉喜劇手法與疾病敘事的特色，探索獨樹一幟的喜劇結構，如何通過嘲諷的敘事形式，作為摧毀舊文化、迎接新文化的重要工具，參與了臺灣從50年代邁入80年代總體性文化的建構；如何利用喜劇性矛盾本身蘊含「風俗照鏡」的功能，突顯現代性不可避免的矛盾，最後以「疾病書寫」的隱喻，建構了現代性的另一副面孔。

關鍵字

沒卵頭家 ； 王湘琦 ； 現代性 ； 疾病書寫 ； 血絲蟲病

並列摘要

In the light of complex social networks, this paper tackle with the huge impact brought upon the psychology of patients, folk culture, economy and construction for modernization in outlying island after the black dog port was inflicted with filariasis in the novel Boss Noballs. By way of analysis it points out that the novelist Wang Xiangqi has obviously taken not only the outlying island outside Taiwan as a district easily inflicted with disease but also the disease as the best approach to discriminating the connotation of modernity of Taiwan and its contradiction. What is of significant import in reflecting modernity is his argument that we should heal the marginal group and reflecting upon ourselves and pay attention to the latent conflict to which the modern medicine may lead. After thorough elaboration of the characteristics of comic technique, disease narration and the unique comedy structure of this novel, this paper attempt to demonstrate how the ironic narrative form acting as an important device of destroying the old culture and heralding the new culture has engaged in the total cultural construction of Taiwan from 50's to 80's in 20th century, how the inevitable contradiction of modernity is highlighted by utilizing the mirroring function of the custom intrinsic in the comic contradiction and an alternative face of modernity is featured by way of the metaphor of disease writing.

並列關鍵字

"Boss Noballs" ； Wang Xiangqi ； Modernity ； Disease Writing ； Filariasis

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