日常生活與普通人家：賴香吟白色恐怖作品的日常叛離與隱匿文本

Daily Life and Ordinary People: Everyday Resistance and Hidden Transcripts in Kaori Lai's White Terror Fiction

本文關切賴香吟〈清治先生〉、〈文惠女士〉、〈凱西小姐〉（均收錄於2022年出版的《白色畫像》）作品中的普通人們與日常生活，從中討論白色恐怖的日常叛離、隱匿文本、歷史結構與人為主體的相互關係，並試圖以塞托（Michel De Certeau）提出的戰略（strategy）與戰術（tactic）、斯科特強調的（James C. Scott）弱者實踐與隱匿文本，以及赫緒曼（Albert O. Hirschman）揭示的叛離（exit）、抗議（voice）、忠誠（loyality）這三種與威權的距離來進一步思考白色恐怖的日常實踐、日常反抗、隱蔽文本、叛離逃逸及普通行為者的心靈與行動。藉此，本文首先提出賴香吟在三篇作品中，深刻描繪臺灣人如何陷入政治忠誠度的嫌疑犯、語言的鄉土味與日本氣，甚而被排除公職領域的一體三面。其次，跳脫反抗史觀與苦難敘事的雙重論述，轉移到安身立命的視角論及日常實踐中順服／反抗的擺盪、受害／加害邊界的曖昧。尤其，〈清治先生〉前臺表面忠誠、後臺卻隱匿文本的抵抗，而〈文惠女士〉作為臺籍女性幫傭的繁瑣日常成為國族隱喻，並以瑣碎拒絕政策網羅與主體分裂，最後〈凱西小姐〉的叛離則是一種被迫的流亡，然而，此種流亡也展現海外臺灣人拒絕被治理的態度。是以，這三篇作品互文白色恐怖時期的日常生活與普通人家，進而體現日常叛離、隱匿文本、不受統治的戰術。

 

This paper examines how ordinary people practiced everyday resistance during Taiwan’s White Terror period through a close reading of three stories from Kaori Lai’s Portraits in White: "Mr. Ching-chih," "Ms. Wen-hui," and "Miss. Kathy," exploring interconnections between practices of disengagement (exit), hidden narratives, and individual subjectivity within broader historical structures. Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s concepts of strategy and tactic, James C. Scott’s analysis of weapons of the weak and hidden transcripts, and Albert O. Hirschman’s framework of exit, voice, and loyalty as tools for distancing from authority, this paper examines how ordinary actors engaged in daily resistance through both thought and actions. Through these three stories, Lai reveals how the White Terror regime scrutinized Taiwanese individuals—questioning their political loyalties, impacting their use of local Taiwanese and Japanese linguistic expressions, and ultimately excluding many from public office positions. Lai challenges traditional White Terror historiography, which often focuses on either resistance or suffering, by depicting how ordinary people’s search for daily stability produced practices that oscillated between submission/resistance and blurred the boundaries of victim/perpetrator. While "Mr. Ching-chih" presents an outward facade of regime loyalty, Lai embeds subtle forms of resistance within its subtext. In "Ms. Wen-hui," Lai presents the protagonist—a female domestic helper—as a metaphor for the Taiwanese people, depicting how she preserves her identity through small daily acts of resistance against regime policies. Finally, the narrative of "Miss. Kathy" reveals how forced exile became a form of "exit" that, paradoxically, expressed overseas Taiwanese people’s resistance to regime control. Through these three stories, Lai illuminates how ordinary people during the White Terror embodied various forms of resistance—whether through tactics of exit, hidden transcripts, or daily refusal to be governed.