身分政治的邊界：從帕慕克的文化書寫重思感受性分配與美學解放的意義

In his book on the politics of aesthetics, contemporary French thinker Jacques Rancière points out the workings of the aesthetic regime as a mode of social emancipation which, in his view, first took place in the 19th-century novel. As seen in the tradition of the novel, from Balzac to Proust and Surrealism, “the ordinary becomes a trace of the true if it is torn from its obviousness in order to become a hieroglyph, a mythological or phantasmagoric.” Rancière thus argues, “this phantasmagoric dimension of the true, which belongs to the aesthetic regime of the arts, played an important role in the formation of the critical paradigm of the human and social sciences.” For Rancière, the phantasmagoric objects as preserved in the novelistic space, similar to the ordinary and the anonymous made visible in other aesthetic expressions that came later such as film and photography, can be taken as a striking testimony to the life of the anonymous and society’s contradictions and thus the possibility of bringing equality and emancipation—what keeps a democratic community alive—into being. In Taiwanese literature of the 1990s, we see such an attempt to reflect on the dimension of the true through the representation of the subject matter that may seem rather symptomatic or incongruous, if not antagonistic, vis-à-vis the subject matter that manifests the Taiwan-centered national consciousness upheld by leading political parties and widely accepted by the general public. What would the writers write against the grain, we cannot help but wonder? Why would they want to bring about what we may call an aesthetic revolution, to use Rancière’s words, in the wake of the lifting of martial law, which can be seen as the success of a political revolution that has helped ensure the democratic system in Taiwan? What remains unseen and concealed in the dimension of the true that has been opened up by the political revolution? Following the line of thought formed by Rancière, this paper aims to show such an aesthetic revolution to redeem the dimension of the true in contemporary Taiwanese literature.