從“牠們”到“我們”———當代香港作家小説的動物書寫

From THEY to WE: Contemporary Hong Kong Writers Writing about Animals

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

隨著自然環境保育，動物權等議題在世界的重要性與日俱增，香港作家關注動物生存境遇的聲音益發增多。張婉雯、韓麗珠、可洛、蔣曉薇、黄怡等當代香港作家除了關顧生活在城市中不同階層的人，還留意關心生活於人類周邊的不同動物，通過小説描繪人類與動物的互動。本文聚焦於當代香港作家的動物書寫，借助威爾·金利卡、蘇·唐納森提出的動物權理論，析論他們如何想像人類與馴化動物，城際野生動物和野生動物之間的關係，展現作家對動物的情感連結，對動物生存境遇，動物權等主題的反思，探問當代香港作家如何透過動物書寫來設想一種不以人類爲中心的嶄新關係，豐富當代香港文學的版圖。

With the growing importance of environmental conservation and animal rights around the world, Hong Kong writers have louder voices concerning animal welfare. Contemporary Hong Kong Writers such as Cheung Yuen-man, Ho Lok, Hon Lai-chu, Chiang Hiu-mei, and Wong Yi care not only about the living conditions of human beings in the city but also the different animals living around humans. Their fiction describes the interaction and relationship between humans and animals. This article focuses on the writing about animals by contemporary Hong Kong writers, in light of Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson’s theory of animal rights, analyzing how they imagine the relationship between humans and domesticated animals, liminal animals, and wild animals. It presents the abovementioned writers’ view on human and animal bonding, and further discusses their reflections on animal rights. Finally, it examines how contemporary Hong Kong writers imagine a new relationship that is not anthropocentric through writing about animals, enriching the territory of contemporary Hong Kong literature.