The Poetics of Diasporas: Reconceptualizing Home and Identity in Two Hong Kong Poets

離散的詩學：重構香港詩中的「家」與「身份」意象

10.6184/TKR.201006_40(2).0003

Winnie L. M. Yee

香港文學 ； 詩 ； 華人離散 ； 對話 ； 社會想像 ； Hong Kong literature ； poetry ； Chinese diasporas ； dialogue ； social imaginary

Tamkang Review

40卷2期（2010 / 06 / 01）

41 - 77

英文

這篇文章以詩作爲討論之重點，檢視香港詩人如何通過重寫與重塑，有系統地處理社會文化場境中具象徵性的一面，從而認知及體會社會的一事一物。本文討論的焦點一方面集中釐訂香港歷史中一些極爲重要的時刻，探討由社會歷史狀況及文化經驗所構合的香港社會想像；另一方面則研究詩歌於處理文學世界中的文化想像的位置及其重要性。香港於華人離散歷史中的自我定位，以及詩歌如何有效把離散經驗轉化爲有效的社會及文化批判，也是本文研究之重點。以詩人鷗外鷗(1911-1995)及游靜(b.1966)爲出發點，本文揭示兩位詩人對離散經驗的個人見解及政治回應；並探討他們如何利用地理及知識上的轉移，對身份與家國、殖民與全球化等問題提出深刻的反思。

This article examines some shared poetic texts that speak figuratively of the way the people of Hong Kong have managed to perceive and experience their lives. My analysis articulates the symbolic dimension of our socio-cultural world through a process of rewriting and reconstruction. It traces the identifying characteristics of the Hong Kong imaginary arising from the cultural experiences and socio-historical conditions of specific periods of Hong Kong history and focuses on one of the meaning-producing forms of cultural significations-poetry-as a means of discovering the shared world of the cultural imaginary in the literary sphere. This article explores the notions of home and diaspora, which inform the construction of place and locality and exemplifies the crucial role Hong Kong plays in the Chinese diasporic experience, and poetry’s capacity to translate the diasporic experience into social and cultural critique. It focuses on the work of Ou Waiou (1911-1995) and You Jing (b. 1966) because both poets responded personally and politically to the conditions leading to the Chinese diasporas and their poetry sheds light on the ways in which both geographical and intellectual displacement served as a critical device to reflect on the notions of identity and home, colonization and globalization.

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