女性冷硬派小說中的性與暴力──以桐野夏生《OUT》為例

Sex and Violence in Women's Hard-boiled Fiction: Kirino Natsuo's Out As An Analytical Text

被稱為日本3F推理小說始祖的桐野夏生，常以寫實的手法描寫生存於男性主導社會中女性之慾望與心理隱晦面，因而也被稱為女性主義作家。桐野文學屢屢以被流放至邊緣的弱勢族群為主角，刻劃他們如何對於世界荒謬無理之處感到憤怒，而在抗拒社會秩序的同時，為了尋求新的突破進而破壞既有秩序，帶領讀者進入超乎想像的世界。桐野夏生之代表作《OUT》即是以此創作動機為出發點，本稿將以此作為主要之文本分析對象，探討其筆下冷硬派女性為了自現實生活困境中殺出重圍，如何將暴力作為尋求突破之最後武器，展現絕地逢生的強烈求生／求性意志，進而如何藉此動搖性別機制中之權力機轉，與此同時找回絕對的自由及其自我的身分認同。

As the pioneer of 3F mystery writer in Japan, Kirino Natsuo tends to apply realistic way of writing to depict women's desire and the darkness buried deeply in their minds. Therefore, she also has been a renowned feminist writer. Kirino has long prided herself on exploring the anger roared by characters teetering on the edge of the abyss. While fighting against the established social order to make a breakthrough, her characters usually bring the reader into an unimaginable world. OUT is one of the most representative works of such motif. In this paper I will investigate how the hard-boiled women depicted in OUT use violence as the very weapon of fighting for survival, freedom and desires as well as how the female protagonist reestablishes her own identity when the power paradigm of gender has been twisted by violence exercised by women.