摘要

《夕霧花園》是陳團英的第二本小說，透過主角張雲林的第一人稱敘事，描繪了太平洋戰爭中日本佔據馬來亞的期間與其餘波，雲林花了幾乎一輩子的時間嘗試找出她曾被囚禁的集中營，而該集中營於戰爭即將結束之時被摧毀，雲林是唯一的倖免者。本論文旨在探討該小說中空間、身體及歷史的廢墟與廢墟化過程的政治。第一章圍繞在廢墟的空間意義，已成廢墟與正在經歷廢墟化過程的空間使過去與現在的對話有了可能性。而當廢墟成為傅柯所稱之異質化空間時，又將映照出何種真實？
第二章嘗試檢視小說中的身體廢墟化過程，探討主角雲林的疾病如何使得敘事變得可能，並經由雲林對於集中營的記憶，討論身體毀壞之後油然而生的失落政治。失落的政治體現在哀悼與憂鬱中，雖然憂鬱在佛洛伊德早初的討論中被視為病態的，但此種對於過去的凝視可視為一種對於馴化的抗拒，這種凝視也強迫生命的價值現形，有些生命，是不可哀悼也不可悲傷的。
第三章探討歷史的廢墟化過程。小說著重在馬來亞獨立運動時期以及其後的一九八零年代，在當時，殖民與帝國的歷史已成被遺忘的書頁，成為即將飄散的過去。主角雲林透過寫作自身歷史的過程中嘗試在書頁中勾勒偶然閃現的過去，在其過程中，受壓迫者的歷史即將浮現。

Abstract
Tan Twan Eng’s second novel The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) depicts the Japanese Occupation of Malaya during the Pacific War and the aftermath of it. The story is told through the first-person narration of the protagonist Teoh Yun Ling, who spends almost her whole life searching for the internment camp which she is once kept custody in. This thesis aims to discuss the politics of ruin and ruination in terms of space, body and history. It attempts to elucidate how the ruin is not merely rotting building materials but a process of becoming with fluid meaning. The first chapter revolves the spatial meaning of the ruin. The ruin is what Michel Foucault terms “heterotopia.” Ruined space and ruining space enables the interlocution between the past and the present. They further become the mirror reflecting each other. The second chapter tries to examine the physical ruination of the body in the novel. It discusses Yun Ling’s wartime experience in the internment camp and the politics of loss after the ruination of the body. Grievability reveals the possibility for mourning and melancholia. It concludes that Yun Ling’s physical illness is what makes the narrative possible. The third chapter delineates the ruination of history in the novel. The novel has its focus on the Malayan independence and the 1980s. Colonial and imperial history have become the ruin and is about to fade away. The chapter analyzes how the intragroup history and intergroup history are in the process of ruination. It juxtaposes Yun Ling’s narrative of personal history and the Japanese historian professor Tatsuji’s narrative and delineates how fractured narrative can preserve the voice of the victim. My thesis concludes that the novel is a process of reconstruction of the voice of the oppressed. The study of ruin and ruination is the study of the manipulation of fragments and remains.

Table of Contents

論文審定書…………………………………………………………………………….i

Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………ii

摘要…………………………………………………………………..…………........ iii

Abstract …………………………………………………………………..…………..iv

Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………v

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1

Chapter One: Ruinous Space and Heterotopia……………………………………….17

Chapter Two: Physical Ruination and Loss…………………………………………..39

Chapter Three: Ruination of History…………………………………………………63

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………83

Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………..87

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