傳統形式的異國想像──謝雪漁〈陣中奇緣〉水域形構下的地景敘事

Exotic Imagination in Classical Chinese Novels: A Case Study of 'Romance in the Frontier(陣中奇緣)' Written by Xie Xue-yu(謝雪漁)

謝雪漁於一九○五年發表於《漢文臺灣日日新報》的〈陣中奇緣〉，雖為譯寫之作品，卻是臺灣目前可見最早的漢文通俗小說。其以一七八九年法國大革命為場景，採用「文言」章回體之表現形式，描摩其對於西方（法國）之「異域」想像。本文逐步透過「日治初期漢文通俗小說的形成：謝雪漁〈陣中奇緣〉中的多重語／文實踐」、「二元對立下的戰爭場景與地理想像」和「山水地景與身體空間的形塑」等主題，分析〈陣中奇緣〉如何融合言情與武俠類型，呈現出對於法國的「地理想像」及其背後的深層結構；並藉由山、海、河、湖等山水地景的推展，交織成一幅臺灣於日本殖民統治時期，在中國、日本、西方等文化元素匯流下，所表現之空間敘事特色以及時代意義。

Romance in the Frontier(陣中奇緣)' is Xie Xue-yu's(謝雪漁) fiction which published in 1905 on Taiwan Daily News. It is the earliest visible Chinese popular fiction s in Taiwan. The author uses classical Chinese novels to describe his ''exotic'' imagination about the West (France). This article mainly from 'The Formation of Chinese Popular Fiction s at the Beginning of Japanese Administration ' , 'War scenes and geographical imagination under dualistic opposition' and 'landscape and the formation of body-space ' and other topics, analyzing the fiction how to integrate romance and martial arts type, showing a French 'geographical imagination' and the deep structure behind it. In addition, through the landscape of mountains, seas, rivers and lakes, we can see that the space narrative features and epochal significance of Taiwan in the period of Japanese colonial rule and the convergence of cultural elements such as China, Japan and the West.