菲律宾教授Maria Luisa Torres Reyes讲座通知
讲座人：菲律宾教授Maria Luisa Torres Reyes
讲座题目：The Rizal Tradition, Bildungsroman and the Ethical Imperative of Philippine Literature: The Case of F. Sionil Jose
讲座时间：2018年5月9日（周三）上午9:50-11:30
讲座地点：紫金港校区东6-111
主持人：高奋教授
内容提要：
Filipino novels in English, Tagalog and other Philippine languages teem with corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, greedy capitalists and industrialists, abusive landlords, oppressed peasants, and the ignorant poor, as well as activists, nationalists, committed intellectuals, caught up in national and social liberation struggles.
From the nineteenth-century social realist novels of Jose Rizal -- the country’s national hero -- to today’s modern and modernist novels, the main protagonists are at once sketched out as individual characters as well as allegorically rendered as collective subject who are coming into consciousness about their individual and collective identity and destiny. Historically, they constitute the majority of the Filipinos from the oppressed “Indios” of the Spanish colonial regime to the Filipino “masa” of the contemporary society, at once despairing yet determined to regain individual integrity and national dignity over and over from their colonial masters and the persistent betrayals of the Filipino elite in the postcolonial present.
In the novels, at least, a two-pronged self-awareness is fleshed out individually and set in motion allegorically: from an individual subject against oppressors, and a collectivity within a unity of the nation, and other types of social collectivities against various forms of social and national subjugation. As embodied in the Rizal tradition in Philippine literature, this self-awareness is shaped by the formal structure of the Bildungsroman, becoming an aesthetic of individual and collective formation. In his sense, the ethical imperative is the force that impels the formal structuring of such two-pronged subject formation associative of the Bildungsroman. In this formal structuring, the ethical imperative becomes constitutive of the aesthetic of the bildungsroman of a people whose literature and history are replete with social and national struggles for liberation which are fought, won and lost only to be fought, won and lost again.
A brief historical survey of Philippine literature will be introduced in the lecture, but the illustrative focus of the discussion will be the Rosales saga, a series of historical and socio-political novels by F. Sionil Jose, a Filipino national artist, written from the 1960s to the 1980s.
无论是以英语、塔加拉族语还是其他菲律宾语言写成的菲律宾小说，都有对统治阶级镇压贫苦农民以及各界仁人志士在国家与社会解放中奋力抗争的描述。从19世纪菲律宾国家英雄何塞·黎刹的社会现实主义小说到今天的现代主义小说，都刻画了有代表性的主人公个体，富有寓意地呈现出具有个人与集体身份和命运意识的人物群像。追溯历史，这些如今菲律宾人的主要群体，曾为西班牙殖民时期的土著，在当代，他们则被称为菲律宾“masa”。生活在绝望中的他们，决心重拾个人的完整与国家的尊严，不断与殖民统治者作斗争。这些小说刻画了自我意识两重分化的个体，并赋予他们深层含义，即：从个人对压迫者的反抗，到群体对统治阶级镇压的反抗。正如菲律宾文学中的“黎刹传统”所体现的，这种自我意识形成于成长小说中的形式结构，继而成为一种个人与集体形式的审美。在黎刹眼中，伦理道德是形成成长小说中这种两端分化的形式结构的驱动力。在这种形式结构下，对于那些在文学与历史中描述社会和国家解放斗争，屡战屡败，屡败屡战的人们来说，伦理道德是他们对成长小说审美的基础。
讲座将对菲律宾文学进行简要的历史性梳理，其中将对菲律宾民族作家F. Sionil Jose创作于20世纪60-80年代的历史、社会政治性系列小说《罗萨莱斯传奇》进行详阐。
Maria Luisa Torres Reyes教授简介：
Maria Luisa Torres Reyes is Full Professor, and Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Manila, the oldest modern university in the Philippines, founded in 1611. She is the Editor-in-Chief of UST's multidisciplinary journal, UNITAS, the oldest extant academic journal of its kind in the Philippines, established in 1922. She is the founding editor and editor emerita of the widely indexed international journal , Kritika Kultura, published by the Ateneo de Manila University -- where she taught for many years. She is author of Banaag at Sikat (2010), the award-winning book of literary criticism on the first “socialist” novel in Asia published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and SipatSalin (2012), a collection of her poems and their translations in various foreign and local languages. In her national and international publications, her scholarly interests include the exploration of the ways in which “Western” ideas and literary and critical categories like the theories of Bertolt Brecht, a major German theatre theoretician and practitioner, have been transformed and refunctioned in the Philippines and other non-Western contexts.
圣托马斯大学教授，驻校学者（该校成立于1611年，位于马尼拉市，为菲律宾最早的现代性大学）；圣托马斯大学跨学科期刊UNITAS主编（1922年创刊，为菲律宾现存同类刊物中创刊最早的一本）；国际期刊Kritika Kultura的创始主编和荣誉编辑（该刊由她执教多年的马尼拉雅典耀大学出版发行，被国际上广泛引用）；出版专著Banaag at Sikat（2010）（该书获得文学评论奖项，是对菲律宾国家文化艺术委员会出版的亚洲第一部“社会主义者”小说的评论）；出版被译为多种外语及菲律宾当地语的诗集SipatSalin (2012)。在国内外发表的著述中，她聚焦于对“西方”思维、文学与批评范式的探索，如：贝托尔特·布莱希特的理论（布莱希特是德国重要的戏剧理论家和实践家，其理论与实践传入菲律宾和许多非西方社会并产生新的作用）。
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