手寫之書與手作之物：對讀西西的文學「作物史」和殘疾「生命志」

Between Handwriting and Handmaking: On Xi Xi’s Literary Chronicles of Object-Making and Her Life History of Disability

以香港作家西西的手寫文字與手作（動）物件之間的複雜關係為切入點，將其文學中的「作物史」與作者本人的殘疾「生命志」相對讀。因1989年的乳腺癌手術後遺症，西西的右手受損轉而以左手寫作，並開始將縫製毛熊玩具作為康復手段。西西親手製作的動物玩偶不僅是她的文學對象即「物語」，也是具有自身故事和名字的活生生之物即「賦生」的結果，更是她寫作的媒介變體即從「文」到「物」。在製作文字／（動）物件的過程中，她將文學的視覺閱讀轉向了觸覺體驗，這促使我們重新思考在後人類主義的時代，（殘疾）人與非人（動物和物件）的情感關係何為？作文與作物又如何形成鏡像關係？何為人／（動）物之文學？本文最後強調，在一個後人類資本主義時代，西西手寫之書與手作之（動）物都是以具身勞動抵抗抽象物化而重新尋找人與物邊界的生命嘗試。

This article examines the complex relationship between handwriting and handmaking through Xi Xi’s literary records of object-making, situating them within the context of her disability-marked life history. Following complications from breast cancer surgery in 1989, Xi Xi’s right hand was impaired, compelling her to write with her left hand and to take up sewing teddy bears as a form of rehabilitation. The handcrafted animal dolls she created are not merely objects in her literature; they also embody acts of“animating,”through which they become living subjects endowed with their own stories and names. Through the intertwined processes of writing and crafting by hand, Xi Xi shifts her literary practice from visual reading toward tactile engagement. This shift invites us to reconsider, within a posthumanist framework, the emotional and ontological relationships between (disabled) humans and nonhumans—animals and objects alike. How might the acts of handwriting and handmaking mirror one another? What, in turn, constitutes human literature? The article concludes that, in the era of posthuman capitalism, Xi Xi’s handwritten texts and handcrafted objects exemplify forms of embodied labour that resist abstract reification and redefine the boundaries between humans and nonhumans.