英文摘要 |
In March 1956 Ma Lang (1933-) launched the periodical "New Tides of Literature and Arts", which unveiled the "Hong Kong Modernist Movement" in the 1950s and 1960s. Following Ma Lang's footsteps, Kun Nan (1935-) established the "Society of Literature and Fine Arts," published the periodicals "New Tides of Thoughts and Cape of Good Hope", which propelled the impact of Modernism in literary circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan. This paper examines the discursive power of several "manifestos" of the Hong Kong Modernism written by Ma Lang and Kun Nan, and compares them with similar treatises in Taiwan. Contextualized with the social and cultural milieu of these "manifestos," the paper further investigates the literary criticism of Li Yinghao (1941-), a shining critic among his contemporaries, but very much forgotten nowadays. He is one of the most important critics in Hong Kong who brings into the Sinophone world literary thoughts and critical apparatus of western modernism and Anglo-American New Criticism. It is found that his mode of "apolitical" modernism and new criticism is in fact weaved in peculiar ways with cultural politics and national imaginaries in the 1950s and 1960s. |