During the early stages of its development, Taiwan’s New Literature was intimately connected with realism.The year 2022 is the one-hundredth anniversary of fiction writing in Taiwan, and also the one-hundredth anniversary of modernist literature in the English-speaking world. For the former, this is the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Chui Feng’s “Where Will She Go?” For the latter, it is the one-hundredth anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s (1882–1941) novel Ulysses, and Anglo-American writer T. S. Eliot’s (1888–1965) poem The Waste Land. When the Alphabet Lab was first established, it also paid tribute to the contribution of modernism in the development of post-war Taiwan literature. In this special fiftieth issue on “Taiwan Fiction and ‘Realism,’” we once again identify and trace out the pathways and objectives of Taiwan’s writer apostles over the past one-hundred years.台灣新文學的發展,以追風的〈她要往何處去〉為濫觴,發表於1922年,至今剛好一百年。台灣新文學發軔時,歐美現代主義發展已達到高峰,台灣必然受到影響,可見現代主義與現實主義,在台灣的演變是與時並進的。在這一專輯的〈導言〉中,張教授將九篇小説平均分成三個階段:日治時期(1922–1945)、戰後(1945–1991)和當代(1992–),且對作品的創作背景和選錄的考量,一一加以説明。要而言之,所選譯的九篇「寫實主義」小説,題材涵蓋面廣,各以不同的歷史背景,寫實地反映出社會現實。
For this special issue on “New Generation Women's Fiction from Taiwan,” we have specially invited Professor Lee Kuei Yun of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature at Taiwan's Tsing Hua University to be guest editor and take responsibility for the selections. Because of space limitations it has been possible only to select twelve short stories by eleven woman writers. These writers were all born in the 1970s or later and their works were published in the year 2000 or later. Thus, they represent a period of social change in twenty-first century Taiwan and the spirit of the new generation. The introduction that we asked Professor Lee to provide is entitled “Trauma, esire, Contemporary Women's Voices.” Aside from giving a brief account of the eleven writers and their works, Professor Lee sketches “a number of writerly qualities that become perceptible… [that] represent the internal trauma, female consciousness, physical lust, cat-uman metaphors, and everyday life, etc.” In her introduction, what she particularly stresses is that the sexual desire depicted in these works exposes the internal wounds derived from private individual experience hidden away in the deepest levels of the female consciousness that are exposed for direct observation, and “… [from this] we can tease out a clear semblance of a feminine texture that reverberates with the unique sound of contemporary women's voices.” This then is one of the most important qualities of the new generation of aiwanese women's fiction. In the final analysis, trauma and writing about desire are two major themes of Taiwanese women's literature. 《台灣新世代女性小説》這一專輯,我們特地請台灣清華大學台灣文學研究所李癸雲教授擔任客座編輯,負責選稿。因受篇幅的限制,只選11位女性小説家的短篇小説12篇,作者都是1970年以後出生、其作品發表於2000年以後,反映出二十一世紀台灣社會的變動現象和新世代的精神樣貌。同時我們請李教授撰寫一篇導輪,題爲〈創傷.情慾.時代女聲〉,除了簡述11位作家及其作品之外,還勾勒出其中「隱隱浮現某些書寫特徵,關於內在創傷、女性意識、身體情慾、人與貓的互喻、日常生活等」。本輯導論〈創傷.情慾.時代女聲〉中所特別强調的是,這些作品所書寫的情慾、流露出女性意識底層所隱含的個人私密經驗的内在創傷,而正視創傷,「藉此梳理出形貌清晰的女性肌理,迴盪出『時代女聲』的特殊音色」,成爲新世代台灣女性小説的一大特徵。
This issue contains the verse of twenty-four poets.From 1924, when Hsieh Chun-mu first published four “Poems in Imitation,” the development of new poetry in Taiwan has a history of almost one hundred years. The roots of new poetry in Taiwan with its “twin flower bulbs,” to use the phrase coined by Chen Chien-wu, has now bloomed and borne fruit. It manifests diversified themes, and places great stress on both artistic expression and social concern. It recognizes globalization as the major trend of the times, and maintains a dynamic balance between nativist consciousness and the ensibilities of the Chinese cultural diaspora. Taiwan literature and its new poetry written in Chinese should have a place in the Chinese world community,as well as in the history of world literature. Limited by the space allowed for the journal, we could only select works related to “local” and “quotidian” writing. Yet we hope to observe through these works the manner in which the unique charm and gracefulness of contemporary poetry from Taiwan has blossomed in the garden of world literature.這一專輯精選具有代表性的詩人二十四家。從1924年謝春木發表「詩的模仿」四首算起,台灣新詩的發展也有將近一百年的歷史。新詩「兩個球根」在台灣已經開花結果,呈現出主題多元,創作藝術與關懷現實並重,面對全球化的時代趨勢,保持本土意識與文化離散互相呼應和抗衡。台灣文學和以華文創作的新詩,不僅在華人世界,甚至在世界文學的大花園裡,都應該占有一席之地。我們出版這一專輯,收到篇幅的限制,只能以「地方與日常」選錄相關詩作,藉以展現台灣當代詩在世界花園裡一枝獨秀的風姿。