香港普及文化视野下的女性书写 ：论亦舒的言情小说（1980–2000 年) = Feminist writings under the influence of Hong Kong‘s popular culture : an analysis of Yishu’s romantic novels (1980-2000)

亦舒于六十年代开始创作，擅长写散文及言情小说，是香港迄今最多产、出版最多作品的作家之一。将近半个世纪以来，亦舒创作不辍，作品一直深受欢迎，读者遍布中港台及海外华人地区。香港蓬勃发展的普及文化（Popular Culture）为她提供了一展身手的舞台，而她在写作题材上的创新，更让她倍受瞩目。亦舒自七十年代末开始锐意改革创造新一代女性形象，这令她与过去言情小说作家很不一样。她笔下的女性不但具时代感，性格突出，在生活上更主张独立，反映了不同时期的香港女性对独立自主的追求。Yishu began her writing career in the 1960’s, writing essays as well as romantic novels; she is, by far, one of the most prolific Hong Kong based Chinese writers in history. In nearly half a century, Yishu has never stopped writing; her work has remained popular over the decades, attracting readers not only from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan, but also from overseas Chinese communities. Hong Kong’s flourishing popular culture has provided a stage on which Yishu could shine. The novel themes of her writing in due time have made her a phenomenon. Since the waning of the 1970’s, Yishu has deliberately forged a new generation of female icons, the creation of which has distinguished her from past and contemporaneous romantic novelists. The female characters of her creation are not only both current and relevant, they are also imbued with strong personalities and advocate female independence, thus reflecting a realistic range of women struggling for self-respect and independence throughout various periods of Hong Kong’s variegated history. Past studies of Yishu’s work have focused primarily on the feminism that reverberates throughout her novels, but such studies rarely focus on the influence of Hong Kong’s unique cultural atmosphere at the time of Yishu’s writing. This thesis will examine Yishu’s feminist writings, framed and partly formed by Hong Kong’s popular culture.Bachelor of Art