在西方與東亞間擺盪－－世紀之交臺灣推理文學場域的重構

Swinging Between the West and the East: The Reconstruction of Taiwan's Mystery Literary Field at the Tum of the Century

臺灣推理文學場域進入1990年代後，產生劇烈震盪。原來在1980年代具有主導力量的林佛兒與林白出版社，被詹宏志與其規劃的「謀殺專門店」書系所置換，在推理敘事典範上也產生更迭，並由日本轉向西方。隨著1998年第三屆時報文學百萬小說獎的舉辦，推理文學場域不僅與主流文壇逐漸疊合，更引發主流媒體與網路推理讀者對於推理小說類型定義的角力，繼而催生了2002年自網路掘起的「人狼城推理文學獎／臺灣推理作家協會徵文獎」的舉辦，形成新一波意圖另立場域規則的主導權力爭奪，並進行日本推理敘事典範的在地生產。因此本論文的主要目的，在於探討這十多年間的兩個重大轉折，如何促成臺灣推理文學場域的重構，以及在新的場域運作規則下，如何生產出新的知識權力關係與分配，形塑出如今我們所見、具有獨立性的臺灣推理文學場域。 With the onset of the 1990s, Taiwan's mystery literary field began to experience wild swings. Though they had been the dominant force in the 1980s, Fo-er Lin and Lin Po Publishing Corporation could not escape the fate of being replaced by Hung-Tze Jan and his mystery novel series 'House of Murder Specialties'. The narrative paradigm of mystery novels had shifted from Japan to the West. With the organization of the Third Million Dollar China Times Award for Novels, the field of mystery novels had not only gradually coincided with the mainstream literary world, but had also led to conflicts over the definition of the mystery genre between the mainstream media and on-line readers. This then facilitated the organization of the Ren-Lang-Chen Mystery Award/ Mystery Writers of Taiwan Award that arose from the Internet in 2002, launching a new wave of power struggles over new rules for the mystery novel genre, as well as spawning local adaptions of the narrative paradigm of Japan's Shin-honkaku mystery novels. The main purpose of this paper, therefore, is to explore how these two major turning points over this period of just ten or more years facilitated the reconstruction of Taiwan's mystery genre, and how the new knowledge power relations had been generated under the new rules set for the field, shaping out Taiwan's mystery genre that one can see observe today.