英文摘要 |
"This paper focuses on a specific space, Tiananmen, in modern Chinese poetry through the lens of spectrality. Because of its inextricable connection with a series of historical events in the twentieth century, Tiananmen is widely regarded as a political space. However, in modern Chinese poetry, it is displaced, misinterpreted, and reinvented as a haunted place. This paper begins with the uncanny experience aroused by the ''invisible-visibility'' of Tiananmen in the poems of Zhou Zuoren and Luo Jialun. Then a spectral genealogy is developed in the entanglement between three historical moments and relevant poems: Wen Yiduo and Rao Mengkan both focused on Tiananmen, rather than the real massacre locale, to express a paradoxical attitude towards the March 18 Massacre in 1926; Hu Feng's naive conjuration of ghosts in ''Time Has Begun'' to celebrate the establishment of the PRC counterproductively rendered Tiananmen an eerie place that contrasts the jubilant atmosphere on October 1, 1949; in memory of the June Fourth Incident in 1989, poets redefined ''Tiananmen'' as a spectral agency in the lexicon of vernacular Chinese and highlighted the materiality of specters. This paper argues that poets are in tension with the political connotations of Tiananmen; the desire to deconstruct and reinvent Tiananmen is also coupled with aesthetic pursuits that continuously contribute to the multi-layered hauntedness of Tiananmen in modern Chinese poetry." |