阿思雅‧潔拔的《愛、騎兵行進》的改寫與身分認同

Rewriting and Identity in Assia Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia

本論文擬探討阿爾及利亞法文女作家阿思雅‧潔拔的一九八五年自傳小說《愛‧騎兵行進》中的女性與書寫、歷史和身分認同的相互關聯，以及個人生命與國族命脈之間的交互依存關係。當小說裡的主述者以法文去改寫法國官方記載的阿爾及利亞歷史的同時，她不得不承認自己是冒著一個極大的風險，因為她用了敵人語言，去記錄部落族人如何用血汗來捍衛國家獨立和女性自主的口述史實。正因主述者把她所謂的「繼母語言」（法語）轉變成論述權能的力量，促使了女性生命經驗在代代相傳的口述與記憶當中，得以轉錄成女性願意去認同的一種生命歷史。主述者也因此將法國殖民阿爾及利亞的歷史去中心化，同時挑戰了母土國度裡父系強權的文化限囿。《愛‧騎兵行進》提供了一種嶄新的視角去看待個人身分認同與國族歷史的深層牽繫，更為法文文學開創了另一種的女性論述。

This essay explores the interrelation between women and writing, history, and identity, as well as the interconnection between individual selfhood and collective identity, in the 1985 autobiographical novel of Franco-Algerian writer Assia Djebar. While rewriting Algeria’s history from colonial archival texts and works of French literature, Djebar’s narrator acknowledges that she is running a risk by representing in the former conqueror’s language Algerian women’s stories about their roles in the struggle for national independence and female subjectivity. The narrator endeavors to turn this ”stepmother tongue,” as she calls the French language, into a useful vehicle for reinscribing women’s life experiences, passed down from generation to generation in the Algerian oral tradition, into written history they can identify and claim as theirs. By rewriting the Algerian historical record, the narrator seeks not only to decenter colonialist constructions of history and power, but also to dismantle her motherland’s despotic patriarchal system. L'Amour, la fantasia thus offers a new dialectic between identity and history, creating a narrative of and for women that is unique in Francophone literature.