現代化與公民化－由周金波〈水癌〉中的醫療主題出發

Abstract

本文由〈水癌〉中的醫療主題出發，透過對殖民者之意識與策略之檢証，對照作為在殖民者「現代化」過程中，所無意創造出來的「公民階級預備隊成員」－醫師作家的主觀認識，來了解周金波小說系列中所揭露之包括現代化、公民化與國家權力等三個聯繫要素，進而揭露其書寫意識，以證明包括「被統治、統合的過程」，及其過程中基於主體意識所產生之質變等多樣性，乃殖民文學的必然本質。同時藉由探索上述周金波在創作中所苦心孤詣追尋的聯繫，以及作家的動機，對包括〈水癌〉在內以該等要素為主軸的創作文本，展開重新的閱讀。

This article is intending to reveal the three connecting factors, i.e., modernization, citizenship and state power in Shou Kin Ha`s novel ”Trench Ulcer”, which constantly existed in his series of works, through re-examining the colonial consciousness and strategies in the era. Evidenced by the fact that an intern citizenship, including the doctor/author himself, was accidentally created by the colonial authority in the process of modernization frequently contemplated by the writer in his work, the colonial literature, including the so-called Komin Literature, is therefore arguably to pertain the character incorporates a mutation derived from the subjective consciousness formulated in the process of being ruled and assimilated.