Unfinished Revolution： A Paradox of Mourning Subjectivity in Su Manshu＇s The Lone Swan.pdfVIP

Front．Lit．Stud．China2015，9(1)：104-130 D0I10．3868／s010—004．O15．0005—4 M akikoM oIu UnfinishedRevolution：AParadoxofMourning SubjectivityinSuManshu’STheLoneSwan Abstract SuManshu’s苏曼殊 (1884-1918) eLoneSwan fDuanhong lingyanji断鸿零雁记，19l1，l912)iSbestknownforasustaineduseofsubjective voiceandathematic emphasison tragiclove．Criticshave0ften credited the novella’S intensely tragicnarrative ofr spearheading a new kind ofliterary subjectivitythatbecameacornerstoneofmodemChineseliteratureasheralded bytheM aVFourthcriticsin thelate 1910sandthe 1920s．However,veryfeW haveexaminedthisnewsubjectiviytasancfrectofSu’Scriticalengagementwith alateQingnationalistnarrative．Su’Snovellawasanappropriationofthe anti—M anchurevolutionarynarrativeofanmion．whichhingedonaparadoxical modeofenvisaginganew Chinathroughatemporalreutrn tothepastandby meansofatragicsacrifiCCoftheindividua1．FollowingabriefanalysisofSu’S earlypiecepublishedinThePeople Journal(Minbao 民报)，thisarticle demonstrateshowTh eLoneSwanelaboratedonanexcessofindividualsacrifice， whiledevelopingthene mourningsubjectivityasawi伪esstotheunfinished revolutionary enterpriseofforgingapowerfu1nation．Su’Snarrativeofculutral devastationresonateswithLUXun’S(1881-1936)lateOingWOrk，but，inthe M aV Fourth period thatimmediately followed thissense ofdespairwould becomeanunequivocalobjectofrovercoming． Keywords SuM anshu，anti—Manchurevolution，moum ing，martyrdom，literary modernity Introduction Thisarticleexaminesanarrativeofculturaldevastationandmourningatthetime ofpost—ImperialcrisisinChina takingasan exampleSuManshu’S苏曼殊 (1884-1918)novella，TheLoneSwan(Duanhonglingyanji断鸿零雁记，1911， MakikoMORI(圜) DepartmentofForeignLanguages Literatures，AuburnUniversity，AL36849，USA E-mail：mzmO040@auburn．edu UnfinishedRevolution l05 1912)．Thenovellaiswellknownforitssustainedusageofthefirst．person confessionalnarrative，which isinfusedwiht an intense senseofdespair,or i‘n‘descr