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身体的解放与规训

The Liberation and Domestication of Body

【作者】 黄晓华

【导师】 易竹贤;

【作者基本信息】 武汉大学 , 中国现当代文学, 2005, 博士

【副题名】中国现代文学身体意识论

【摘要】 作为人存在的物质基础,身体是生命的本体。人首先通过身体与自然、社会发生关系,也首先通过身体认识世界与自我。对身体的认识,不仅关系到个体的建构,而且关系社会的建构。中国传统文化与传统文学中的身体意识,对中国社会发展以及个体建构有着重大影响。现代文学提出了“立人”这一主题,形成与传统文化与传统文学的深层断裂。现代文学中的主人公由传统的忠臣烈士、孝子节妇、帝王将相、才子佳人转换成“人”,使文学真正成为“人学”。现代文学的“立人”理想包含着两个层面:一方面是由奴隶到人的社会解放,一方面是由动物到人的生理解放。正是在“立人”的这两个层面上,身体意识的重要性得到凸显。健全的人首先需要有健全的身体;只有使个体一方面获得外在社会身体的自由,一方面获得内在生理身体的自由时,真正的“人”才可能诞生。对现代文学中身体意识进行梳理总结,可以更真实地看到现代文学“立人"理想的成就与局限。 现代文学虽然有着共同的“立人”理想,但各个流派对于“人”的认识并不一致。因此,在各个流派追求各自“立人”理想时,表现出不同风格,也表现出不同的身体意识。根据各流派在主题与风格上的近似,可以将现代文学划分为四大板块:人生派、艺术派、革命派以及翻身派。本论文以四类创作为经,以社会身体与生理身体为纬,试图从整体上把握现代文学身体意识的转型与流变脉络。 以“‘为人生’,而且要改良这人生”为宗旨的人生派文学是中国现代文学的主流。它以启蒙精神为思想武器,以人道主义为价值核心。在对普通民众生活的关注中,人生派切入了传统身体意识在社会身体与生理身体两个层面上的束缚。健全的“人”的诞生首先需要解构传统身体意识。人生派以民主与科学作为解构传统身体意识的武器,以促进健全身体意识的诞生。实现由奴隶到人的转变,需要以民主解构传统“三纲”在社会身体方面对人的奴役,使个体获得对自己身体的自主权,人的自由才不是一句空话。实现由动物到人的进化,则需要以科学之光去消解传统蒙昧主义附加于生理身体的种种迷信,使人对自己的身体欲望有一种清明的意识。由国民对刑罚中犯人的身体以及对普通人身体上的服饰的不同态度,人生派切入了身体中潜含的政权的运作,并由此批判国民又凶又怯的两面性。由子辈与妇女的身体,人生派切入了传统父权与夫权的运作,从根本上解构传统的家族权力。在生理身体方面,人生派则关注性与疾病的问题。新性道德的建构是“立人”的一个重要组成部分,这种建构不仅需要科学的光与艺术的香,同时需要整个社会制度的改造。在疾病方面,人生派凸显身体的病痛的社会因素,由下层民众的病与死展开对传统文化以及传统社会的双重解构。 作为与人生派分庭抗拒的一大派别,艺术派有着更多的个性解放意味,表现出比较

【Abstract】 As the material base of human being, body is the noumenon of life. Human being firstly establish contact with nature and society through body, firstly understand world and oneself through body too. Body consciousness not only concerns the constructing of the individual but also concerns the constructing of the society. The body consciousness of Chinese traditional culture and traditional literature has major impact on social development and individual construction. Modern literature proposes "cultivating human" as the theme, this makes a deep rupture between modern literature and traditional culture and literature. The protagonists of modern literature are not traditional officials loyal to his sovereign, martyr, filial son, chaste women, kings, high officials, gifted scholar and beautiful woman any more, but "human being" . This makes literature really "humanity study". The "cultivating human" ideal of modern literature includes two aspects. To cultivate sound human needs not only the social liberation of slave, but also the physiological understanding of animal. Just on these two aspects of "cultivating human", the importance of body consciousness becomes prominent. Sound human needs sound body at first. Only by making individuals on one hand have freedom of external social body, on the other hand have freedom of inherent physiological body, may the real "human being" be born. To comb and summarize the body consciousness of modern literature, can make us understand the achievement and limitation of modern literature "cultivating human" ideal more clearly.Though modern literature has common "cultivating human" ideal, the understanding of "human" of each school is inconsistent. So, when each school pursues each "cultivating human" goal, they show different styles and represent different body consciousness. According to the common grounds of theme and style, modern literature can be divided into four schools: literature for life, literature for art, literature for revolution and literature for class turnover. This dissertation regards four schools as longitudes, social body and physiological body as latitudes, attempts to wholly grasp the transition threads of the body consciousness of modern literature.Aimed at "for life and improving life", the school of literature for life is the mainstream of modern literature. It uses the enlightenment spirit as the ideological weapon, regards humanitarianism as the value core. By paying great attention to the common people’s life, literature for life probes into the constraints on social body and physiological body, which are brought by traditional body consciousness. The birth of sound "human being" needs deconstruct traditional body consciousness at first. Literature for life uses democracy andscience as the weapon to deconstruct traditional body consciousness, therefore promotes the birth of sound body consciousness. To realize the transition from slave to human being needs democracy to deconstruct tradition enslavement on social body brought by "the three cardinal guides". Only by making individuals obtain the autonomy of one’s own body can people’s freedom be not nominal. To realize the evolution from animal to human being needs science to clear up all sorts of superstition attached to the physiological body by the traditional obscurantism, thus making people have pure and bright consciousness about body appetency. By national people’s different attitudes to the prisoner’s body and the dress on the bodies of common people, literature for life probes into the operation of the governmental power implied in body, and criticizes the fierce and timid characters of national people. By the bodies of the offspring and women, it probes into the operation of traditional patriarchy and authority of the husband, deconstructs traditional family power fundamentally. In the aspect of physiological body, literature for life pays close attention to sex and disease. The construction of new sexual ethic is an important component of "cultivating human". This kind of construction needs not only scientific light and art fragrant, but also the transformation of the whole social system. In the aspect of disease, literature for life gives prominence to social factor of illness. According to the illness and death of lower people, it launches to deconstruct both traditional culture and traditional society.As a big school standing up to literature for life as an equal, literature for art has more meanings of individual liberation, demonstrates more distinct individualism inclination. The individualism of literature for art makes the body’s nature that body belongs to oneself be thoroughly publicized. In the view of literature for art, body may be an aesthetic target, or a tool of indulging in sensual pleasures, this causes the two different ways of literature for art to describe body. Sexual liberation on one hand can be a sign of individual character liberation, on the other hand may even slip into the modern trap of sensual pleasures; The disease on one hand may make the individual character prominent, on the other hand may form a kind of vicious circle with indulging in sensual pleasures; Maltreating oneself and committing suicide, on one hand may publicize the individual’s initiative, on the other hand may become sign of decadent and hedonism. These two ways are poles apart on the surface, but their inherent essence is unanimous. In the body description of literature for art, the liberation and freedom of body has been stressed, and the individual is the absolute owner of body. Literature for art pays great attention to the physiological body belonging to one’s own, reveals the important meanings of physiological body to construct human being. As an important complement to the social body which literature for life pays close attention to, literature for art pays great attention to the physiological body, this enriches and deepens both the meanings of bodyconsciousness and the study about the construction of human being of modern literature.Literature for revolution has close relationship with both literature for life and literature for art. The revolutionary purpose is a direct successor of humanitarianism of literature for life, and to certain extent, the revolutionary’s passion is consistent with individualism of literature for art. Meanwhile, literature for revolution has remarkable differences with literature for life and literature for art, the latter two pay close attention to ordinary people, while the former pays even more attention to revolutionary group. The characteristic of the style and theme of literature for revolution makes the body consciousness in revolutionary literature show certain peculiar. As to revolutionaries, body has more special meanings. "Devotion" is not one metaphor, but one reality. Taking part in revolution means not only devotion of spirit but devotion of body too. In the devotion of body, the conflict between the nature of body that it belongs to one’s own and its attribute that body should be given up to revolutionary group becomes prominent. This conflict makes the body consciousness in revolutionary literature demonstrate some kind of schizophrenia symptom. Early revolutionary participants and advocators are usually people who benefit from individual character liberation. They have unambiguous consciousness that body belongs to one’s own, meanwhile, the revolution makes them really have their own bodies. But the revolution needs them devote their bodies to the revolutionary project, give the control power of the body to the collective. This conflict is one of the deepest conflicts in the revolution. While the revolution brings the liberation of body and realizes the nature of body that it belongs to one’s own, the revolution also needs the oppression of body and praises the attribute of body that it should be given up to revolutionary group. In this kind of schizophrenia, sex is regarded as body instinct that has double meanings, and the interpretation of disease moves from a physiological phenomenon of body to a spirit phenomenon gradually. Death, the most thorough way to devote one’s body to revolution, shows more outstandingly the contradiction and conflict between the nature of body that it belongs to one’s own and its attribute that it should be given up to revolutionary group.Literature for class turnover mainly describes the social great change brought by class revolution and class turnover. It inherits the humanitarian concern of literature for life and literature for revolution, partly realizes the ideal of the latter two. Class turnover makes the social body liberated from traditional patriarchy and authority of the husband, makes the physiological body get basic satisfaction too. Then class turnover has enormous attraction for the individual body. Meanwhile, class turnover also needs body be domesticated to serve class turnover. In this course, literature for class turnover totally abandons the individualism of literature for revolution, thus cures the schizophrenia symptom of the latter. It replacespersonal consciousness with class consciousness, makes the individual’s body become class’s body, offers home to each body. But there are ranks in this kind of home. Enemy’s body and comrade’s body, public body and private body, man’s body and woman’s body, are not of the same value. Only the bodies serving the class turnover may be highly appraised. In order to serve class turnover better, the body also needs to be purified. Then the sex is conformed with the political words and gradually becomes body attribute that need to be purified. The disease, seemed unseasonable in the new society, fades out of the writers’ vision while it is added political metaphor content. There is also special purifying demand on body’s trappings. The domestication and control of body brought by class turnover makes body obtain equality but lose free.From paying great attention to the liberation of body during the May Fourth Movement period to emphasizing the domestication and control of body in the liberated area, the study of body consciousness of modern literature has gone through a winding evolution course. Though the study still has a great deal of insufficiency, it has deconstructed and subverted the traditional body consciousness in an all-round way as a whole, and demonstrated distinct modern characteristic. Modern writers’ study of body consciousness richens and deepens the theme of "cultivating human". Compared with classical literature, modern literature has not only new languages, new form of expression and new social content, but new "human being" and new "body". Such new body consciousness forms an important factor of modernity of modern literature.

【关键词】 现代文学身体意识解放规训
【Key words】 Modern literatureBody consciousnessLiberationDomestication
  • 【网络出版投稿人】 武汉大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2006年 05期
  • 【分类号】I206.6
  • 【被引频次】49
  • 【下载频次】4238
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