从《大系》和文选看马华文学中的“新村”及集体记忆 ‘New Village’ and Collective Memory in Malaysian Chinese Literature from Anthologies and Selected Works

Abstract

马来西亚华人新村是一个极为本土化的议题。一来新村是在二战后独立之前于1950年代开始形成的集中营，是殖民主义和冷战时期的遗产。二来新村以其独有的聚集方式，成为华人社区集中的集体记忆。然而随着1970年代马来西亚工业化的迅速发展，部分新村作为社区的存在，其界限逐步被城镇的现代化所吞噬，马华文学中的“新村”成了我们可以理解这一特定时期的入口和界面。本文从马华文学《大系》和文选中尝试重新建构“新村”的集体记忆，以补充马华文学研究这一领域的匮乏。

The Chinese New Villages in Malaysia is an extremely localized issue. Firstly, they were concentration camps constructed in the 1950s before Malaysia’s independence; a legacy of colonialism and the Cold War. Secondly, the New Villages, with its unique way of gathering, became the collective memories of the Chinese community. However, with the rapid development and expansion of Malaysia’s industrialization in the 1970s, the New Villages that has existed as a community, found its boundaries gradually being swallowed up by the modernization of towns. The New Villages in Malaysian Chinese literature has become the entry and interface for us to understand this specific period. This paper attempts to reconstruct the collective memories of Chinese New Villages from the Malaysian Chinese Literature anthologies, to supplement the lack of Malaysian Chinese Literature research in this field.