離散的親密關係──蘇偉貞眷村小說中的感官書寫

Diasporic Intimacy: Writing the Senses in Su Wei-chen’s Novels of the Military Dependents’ Quarters

台灣眷村的出現是特定歷史時空的產物，而書寫眷村也需要具有特殊眷村記憶的感官表達，以傳達此一特殊時空記憶的幽微情動，也就是一種特殊的離散親密關係。本篇論文試圖跳脫政治意識形態的閱讀模式，透過感官研究的理論，探討蘇偉貞的兩部長篇小說《有緣千里》（1984）以及《離開同方》（1990）是如何透過感官書寫建構此種離散親密關係。

Taiwan’s military dependents’ quarters (juancun) were constructed at a particularhistoric juncture when massive migrations were taking place. The coming together ofvarious ethnic groups from China following their relocations to various parts of Taiwancreated diasporic conditions that begged for literary expression. In this paper, I arguethat to represent the affective memory and the specific chronotope of these quarters,which are, today, fast disappearing, Taiwanese writers often resort to writing about theeveryday lives and sensory encounters of the inhabitants, which creates a special kindof diasporic intimacy. After an overview of the current scholarship on writings aboutmilitary dependents’ quarters and theories of the senses, I analyze the ways in whichTaiwanese author Su Wei-chen constructs such diasporic intimacy through focusing onsensory experiences--especially those of the auditory and olfactory senses--in her novelsComing Together (1984) and Farewell Tung-fong (1990).