Research Article
The Political Economy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Study of Yang Qing-Chu’s Fiction
謝世宗
Shie, Elliott S.T.
Shie, Elliott S.T.
摘要
當先行研究者強調楊青矗作品所反映的社會現實時，本文指出他的許多作品其實以愛情為情節核心，然而他的羅曼史是一種「反羅曼史」，以赤裸裸的方式展現愛情、性與婚姻的經濟性格，並改寫、顛覆或解構純愛羅曼史的神話。楊青矗透過特定的愛情模式（媒妁之言與自由戀愛），反映下層經濟結構的轉變，並呈現資本主義體制下情愛與婚姻關係的物化現象，尤其公平意識不但展現在公領域，更滲透到私領域。其中的傑作〈工廠的舞會〉是一則資本主義的寓言，呈現資本主義體制下工作與休閒／愛情的共生結構；揭露市場供需不平衡下，雇主與勞工、男性與女性的權力關係；以及在性別分化下，集體抗爭的困難。楊青矗的《心標》與《連雲夢》兩本長篇小說細膩鋪陳男女談情說愛的歷程，宛如羅曼史的形式，但卻點出愛情、藝術、自然與文化資本的共生關係，直指浪漫愛實質上乃是資本主義社會特定階級的特權。透過楊青矗的小說研究，本文一方面重新指出其作品中較少受到關注的愛情元素，另一方面重新思索社會學研究與文學批評的界線，並提出更細緻的反映論架構以思索寫實主義小說的複雜內涵。
關鍵詞：楊青矗、愛情、經濟、反映論、資本主義
Abstract
The scholarship on Yang Qing-Chu's fiction has focused on social, economic, and political issues such as class conflict, social change, economic inequality, gender hegemony, and labor alienation. Against this backdrop, this paper first pinpoints “love” as the locus of his stories; but in contrast to popular romance, where love conquers all, Yang’s love stories reveal the economic characteristics of love, sex, and marriage, thereby subverting the romance formulas that often revere the myth of romantic love. First, through their depiction of intimate, sexual, and marital relationships, love stories reveal the transformations occurring in the economy. In addition, Yang’s love stories explore the phenomenon of reification that has penetrated both the public and private domains. Third,
while his stories seem to indicate the homology between the markets of mating and labor, the story of “The Dance Party” suggests that there is conflict between the individual and the collective, that is, between one’s romantic pursuits and one’s alliances in the interest of the working class. Finally, Yang’ two novels enquire into the trinity of love, nature and art, revealing the relationship of romanic love and class privilege in a capitalist society. Through reflection theory, this paper hopes to shed some new light on Yang Qing-Chu's fiction and to reaffirm the significance of Marxist criticism in the study of Taiwanese literature.
while his stories seem to indicate the homology between the markets of mating and labor, the story of “The Dance Party” suggests that there is conflict between the individual and the collective, that is, between one’s romantic pursuits and one’s alliances in the interest of the working class. Finally, Yang’ two novels enquire into the trinity of love, nature and art, revealing the relationship of romanic love and class privilege in a capitalist society. Through reflection theory, this paper hopes to shed some new light on Yang Qing-Chu's fiction and to reaffirm the significance of Marxist criticism in the study of Taiwanese literature.
Keywords: Yang Qing-Chu, love, economy, reflection theory, capitalism
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