Infectious Postmodernism in/as Notes of a Desolate Man

《荒人手記》中的後現代主義

Nicholas A. Kaldis

《臺灣東亞文明研究學刊》 9卷1期 (2012/06) Pp. 47-77

https://doi.org/10.6163/tjeas.2012.9(1)47

摘要

本文彰顯並分析朱天文於一九九四年所發表的種子小說《荒人手記》之中的後現代特徵，於仔細解讀該小說的同時，並與環繞於此具爭議性之文本周圍的其他翻譯和文脈分析進行批判性對話。本文的主要結論是：該小說所代表的被愛滋病汙名化的男同性戀文化，與其世界性的後現代華服美飾相結合，促使讀者將臺灣的後現代性與後現代文學視為墮落的、蔓延的和侵入的外來生活方式與文學作品的雙重代表。

關鍵字

後現代主義 ； 病毒∕傳染性的 ； 愛滋病 ； 非聯想性的 ； 拼貼∕拼湊 ； 離間（離間化的主體）

並列摘要

This essay highlights and analyzes postmodern characteristics of Chu T'ienwen's seminal 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man. It simultaneously undertakes a close reading of the novel and engages in a critical dialogue with other interpretations and contextual analyses surrounding this controversial text. This essay's main conclusion is that the novel's representation of gay male culture stigmatized by AIDS, in combination with its cosmopolitan postmodern panoplies, encourages readers to view postmodernity and postmodern literature in Taiwan as twin representatives of a debauched, contagious, and invasive foreign lifestyle and literature.

並列關鍵字

postmodernism ； contagion/infectious ； AIDS ； non sequitur ； pastiche ； alienation

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