홍콩문학의 독자성과 범주

Abstract

Because Hong Kong is in the position of bringing together of Eastern and Western cultures, ideas from the left wing and the right wing, political control and freedom of the press, culture and commercialism, Hong Kong literature has come to have a distinct character from that of other regions. First, Hong Kong literature is distinguished from mainland Chinese literature and Taiwan literature, while it still maintains the nature of the original literature source. Second, Hong Kong literature is a good example the society faced with various interactions of different literatures. This study explores the characteristics and category of Hong Kong literature in this direction. Hong Kong literature has the characteristics of it’s own that distinguishes itself from mainland Chinese literature and Taiwan literature: variety of literary thoughts, commercialism of creative writing, fluidity of writers, exchange of literary activities with other regions, intermediation between mainland Chinese literature and Taiwan literature, urban features of literary works, prevalence of popular literature including ‘Kuangkuang Zawen’, and so on. I claim that ‘Hong Kong literature’ should include the works written in Chinese by ‘Hong Kong writers’ who have lived in Hong Kong at least for a certain time, whose works and activities practically have organized a part of the literary phenomenon of the literature in Hong Kong and influenced on that.Hong Kong was returned to China on July first, 1997. Hong Kong’s return is not just a new development in the political or economic fields. Literature is also important and should not be dismissed. We need to make further research into new changes and position of Hong Kong literature in Chinese literature, for Hong Kong literature has a significant position as a core of Chinese literature ‘network’.