Fanning Out Possibilities: Dung Kai-cheung and the Multiplicities of Time

IF 0.3 4区 文学 0 ASIAN STUDIES Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.3366/mclc.2022.0020
Meng Wu
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Hong Kong has brought to world literature some of the most prolific and best-loved fiction writers in modern Chinese history. Dung Kai-cheung is one of them — a Hong Kong-based writer who has found the city to be a constant source of inspiration. This article discusses the significance of multiplicity in Dung’s fictional representation of Hong Kong (“the V-City”), focusing on his 2007 novel Histories of Time: The Luster of Mute Porcelain. In this novel, Dung explores the narrative possibility of perceiving Hong Kong as a multi-historical space through the lens of multiplying temporalities. I have coined the term “V-shaped time” to refer to this multiplication of characters and archaeology of ideas. Time, in Dung’s work, fans out with multiple possibilities of individual and collective experiences in history, with mirrored Vs resembling an hourglass. In this stratified narrative, characters create their fictional selves in their own writing. Identifying the creative self as a literary architect, Dung’s fictional writing challenges the reader to rethink a local history that has been marginalized in the linear narrative of colonial modernity.
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扇出可能性:邓与时间的多重性
香港为世界文学带来了中国现代史上一些最多产、最受欢迎的小说作家。香港作家Dung Kai-cheung就是其中之一,他发现这座城市一直是他灵感的源泉。本文以2007年出版的小说《时间的历史:哑瓷的光泽》为重点,探讨了邓勇对香港(“v型城市”)的虚构再现中多重性的意义。在这部小说中,阮晋勇通过多重时间性的镜头,探索了将香港视为一个多历史空间的叙事可能性。我创造了“v形时间”这个词来指代这种字符的倍增和思想的考古。在Dung的作品中,时间以历史中个人和集体经历的多种可能性展开,镜像v像一个沙漏。在这种分层叙事中,人物在自己的写作中创造了虚构的自我。作为一名文学建筑师,Dung的虚构作品让读者重新思考在殖民现代性的线性叙事中被边缘化的当地历史。
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