讀書、政治與寫作－從《日記》看一九四九年後的葉靈鳳

Reading, politics and writing: Understanding Ye Lingfeng after 1949 through his Diary

樊善標(Sin-Piu Fan)

《中國現代文學》 38期 (2020/12) Pp. 3-25

摘要

葉靈鳳成名於上海，1938年三十三歲起長居香港，直至去世，歷經二十世紀香港最動盪的幾個時段：一九四○年代的「淪陷時期」、1949年的中華人民共和國建立、1967年的「六七暴動」。葉靈鳳給後人留下兩個頗不和諧的印象：愛國反殖的民族主義者、淵博淡澹的隨筆作家。本文借助新近整理出版的《葉靈鳳日記》以了解葉靈鳳讀書人、愛國者和作家這三個身份的顯隱和衝突，以及他怎樣努力地協調於其間。正是這種協調催生了葉靈鳳最具開創性的《香港方物志》隨筆系列，也解釋了他為何長期留在不喜歡的工作崗位。在近二、三十年的香港文學研究裡，「本土意識」顯得愈來愈重要，有時可能簡化了歷史的面貌。重探葉靈鳳的生平和寫作，可以提醒我們不宜低估現實裡集體與個人、政治與藝術等關係的複雜性。

關鍵字

葉靈鳳 ； 香港文學 ； 日記 ； 隨筆

並列摘要

Ye Lingfeng became famous in Shanghai and lived in Hong Kong at the age of 33 in 1938 until his death. He experienced the most turbulent periods of Hong Kong in the twentieth century: the Japanese Occupation in the early 1940s, the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and the ＂1967 Riot＂. Ye left two rather discordant impressions for us: a patriotic and anti-colonial nationalist, and a scholarly and gentle essayist. This paper uses the newly published The Diary of Ye Lingfeng to understand the three identities of Ye Lingfeng, namely, a scholar, a patriot, and a writer, and how he worked hard to negotiate among them. It is this kind of negotiation that gave birth to Ye's most groundbreaking series of essays on ＂Hong Kong Local Records＂, and also explained why he stayed in a job he didn't like for a long time. In the recent 20 to 30 years of Hong Kong literary research, ＂local consciousness＂ has become more and more important, and it may sometimes simplify the face of history. Revisiting Ye's life and writing can remind us that we should not underestimate the complexity of the relationship between collective and individual, politics and art in reality.

並列關鍵字

Ye Lingfeng ； Hong Kong literature ； diary ； essay

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