誰方的歷史：黎紫書的「希斯德里」

Whose Side of History: On Li Zishu's Works of Fiction

共產主義自二戰結束後幾年，即被馬來亞政府，甚至後來的馬來西亞政府，視為威脅國家安全的首號敵人。藉著法令的設置、紀念碑的豎立、教科書的書寫、電視短片的宣傳等等的渲染，左翼革命鬥爭已被等同於恐怖主義。隨著一九八九年馬來西亞政府與馬來亞共產黨簽署和平協議，「馬共」成了過去式的歷史名詞。爾後，不時有前馬共黨員紛紛出版著述，或緬懷過往的「激情歲月」，或追述「我方的歷史」，或企圖以回憶抵制官方文化記憶。馬共走出山林十餘年來，馬來西亞境內對這段歷史作美學建構最力的，無疑是九○年代以來備受肯定的馬華女作家黎紫書。本文將著重討論黎紫書幾篇以馬共為敘述材料的（得獎）力著，繼而探索她對歷史的記述模式。

The government of Malaya and thereafter Malaysia has regarded Communism its No.1 national enemy since the end of the Second World War. The tipping point occurred in 1989 when the Malaysian government and the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) signed a peace agreement. Thereafter, CPM was just a word in Malaysian history, and many memoirs, histories and literary works on CMP have been published since then. Li Zishu is a renowned writer in Mahua literature. She has been greatly interested in reconstructing CPM history from the aesthetic perspective. This article studies Li Zishu's works of fiction on CPM and also probes her narrative modes on history.