《文艺新潮》(1956.2.18-1959.5)被评论界誉为1950年代香港现代派坐标性之刊物。论文通过考察此刊物,对其文学性质及意义给予以往不同的界说。围绕着此刊物的编者与撰稿者形成了一个跨越两岸三地的青年文人群体,他们将现代主义审美与时代现实关怀相连接,香港现代文学与台湾及世界现代文学相沟通,追求重建文学理想乐园与自由民主精神的乌托邦。此外,论文还讨论了《文艺新潮》及其运作之于冷战时期香港本地文艺场域构型与文学主体性生成之意义,并检视其时新潮社同人与香港左右两派文化及美元/援文化、内地美学传统,台湾及世界文坛之多重关系。
The New Trends of Literature (1956.2.18—1959.5) was honored as a representative modernist journal in Hong Kong in 1950s. By investigating the journal, this paper provides a new horizon for its literary value and significance. The editors and writers of the journal formed a literary community of young people crossing Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland, who connected modern aesthetic appreciation with realistic concerns of the time, compared modern literatures in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the whole world, and pursued to reconstruct a literary paradise and a utopia of the spirit of freedom and democracy. In addition, this paper also discusses the operation of the New Trends of Literature during the Cold War, the structure of local literary domain and the significance of literary subjective creation, and examines the multi-relationship among the faculties of the journal, the left-wing and right-wing cultures in Hong Kong, American aids or dollar culture, the mainland aesthetic tradition, and literary circles in Taiwan and the world.