英文摘要 |
In the past, the way to discuss Hong Kong was always to emphasize its particularity of lack and ambiance of borrowed space and borrowed time. Since its time and space can be "borrowed", the action of giving the borrowed time and space in return necessarily follows; thus, the subjectivity of Hong Kong always disappears between borrowing and giving in return. However, under the influence of various narrative approaches, the strategy of narrative and point of view tend to change during transitional periods and at the different historical phases in each society. The novel "Flying Carpet" presents Hong Kong proper. It was written by Xi Xi, a female writer in Hong Kong, and published before the handover in 1997. Furthermore, besides the perspective in which Hong Kong is represented through a logic of the wound and a form emphasizing the uniqueness and particularity of Hong Kong itself, it shows us how to view Hong Kong from other perspectives. Through the daily lives of common people and a universal cognition of the most practical boundary of geography, Xi Xi reflects the differences between locality of Hong Kong and exterior places. In the age of globalization that boundary no longer seems important as it had become blurry gradually; Xi Xi, however, returns to adopt the strategy of narrative in a direct and fundamental way of geographical politics. In other words, the way to represent Hong Kong and the focalization is no longer about the concept of lack and wound that was emphasized in earlier days, but a tendency to explore how the dialog proceeds between locality and the otherness of culture, and how the imagination of locality releases the potential energy in limited boundary. |