Place, genre, and literary production : a study on San-su (Kao Xiong)'s bizarre commentaries (1945-1979) = 地方、文類與文學生產 : 三蘇(高雄)怪論(1945-1979)研究

Abstract

“Cantonese Literature” is a crucial topic in the field of Hong Kong Literature, which has been primarily focusing on the genre of fiction. This research, rather, shifts the focus to San-su (Kao Xiong)’s “Bizarre Commentaries,” as appeared on Xinsheng Wanbao and Ming Pao from 1940s to 1970s. Bizarre Commentaries involves Cantonese Literature, Column Essays, Parody, and more. This research attempts to critically evaluate San-su’s Bizarre Commentaries. Building upon Bourdieu’s work on Sociology of literature, and Genre Studies, as well as Bakhtin’s theories on Dialogism and Carnivalesque, this research attempts to discuss the reciprocal relationship and the intersection between local and community culture, genre and the production of literature.

This paper first examines how Parody from the late Qing Dynasty developed into 1940s Bizarre Commentaries, followed by a discussion on the popularization of Bizarre Commentaries in the 40s. Probing into how local and community cultures of Guangdong and Hong Kong affect the production of literature and the development of genres. Building upon these discissions, this paper examines the way in which Bizarre Commentaries, as a variant of Parody, intersects with San- su’s literary style and the production of literature. This paper concludes with a discission on Bizarre Commentaries, as a form of Column Essay, from the perspective of conversational analysis, by posing the following question: In what way does the characteristics of this genre affects San-su’s response to various political discourses in Hong Kong, and how Hong Kong is expressed by the Bizarre Commentaries. Through examining the way in which Hong Kong is represented in Bizarre Commentaries, this paper explores the interaction and intersection between genre, the dialogistic of column essay, and the construction of local identity.

「粵語文學」是香港文學研究中的重要課題，過往相關研究較為偏重小說文類。本研究主要以三蘇怪論四十至七十年代在《新生晚報》及《明報》的三蘇「怪論」為研究對象。「怪論」是粵語文學、專欄散文、戲擬文學，涉及多 個面向。本文援引布赫迪厄（Pierre Bourdieu）的文學社會學理論、西方文類理論及巴赫金（Mikhail Bakhtin）的對話及狂歡化理論，分析三蘇的怪論，並探討地方文化、文類及文學生產之間的關係及相互作用。

本文首先疏理晚清諧文如何演變為四十年代的怪論，以及探討怪論在四十至七十年代的興盛情況，從而探討粵港地域文化如何影響文學生產及文類發展。繼而討論怪論作為諧文的文類變體，與三蘇的文體風格及文學生產之間的關係。最後會從對話性出發，研究作為專欄散文的怪論，其文類特質如何影響三蘇回應香港各種政治話語，以及香港如何被怪論所表述，由此探究文類、專欄散文的對話性與地方主體建構之間的相互作用。