The Quasi-National Allegory and Politics of Disappearance in the Infernal Affairs Trilogy

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 外國文學與語言學研究所 === 96 === In this thesis, I try to focus on the slippage and in-between-ness of the nationhood, and the dialectics between anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, and conduct my investigation in three directions. First of all, I revisit H...

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Main Authors: Yi-Hsin Chou, 周怡欣
Other Authors: I-Chu Chang
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49a7m5
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spelling ndltd-TW-096NCTU54620132019-05-15T19:49:29Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49a7m5 The Quasi-National Allegory and Politics of Disappearance in the Infernal Affairs Trilogy 《無間道》:類國族寓言以及「消失」政治 Yi-Hsin Chou 周怡欣 碩士 國立交通大學 外國文學與語言學研究所 96 In this thesis, I try to focus on the slippage and in-between-ness of the nationhood, and the dialectics between anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, and conduct my investigation in three directions. First of all, I revisit Hong Kong’s colonial past by mapping the refractions of gangster genre; investigate how post-97 atmosphere reinforces the Infernal Affairs trilogy; finally, how quasi-national allegory is generated. First, I demonstrate the in-between-ness of Hong Kong itself, its cultural productions, and gangster films. Through the interruption and rearrangement of time, the Infernal Affairs trilogy unfolds the heritage of gangster genre and provides the refractions in identity construction to embrace the Motherland China. A quasi-national allegorical approach in the Infernal Affairs trilogy unfolds the triangular relationship of Hong Kong, Britain and China from a neutral perspective. Second, I investigate the postmodern pastiche in the continuously nostalgia aura and the nihility toward the Buddhism with repeating image of reincarnation. I start from the variation on the concept of jianghu to unwrap the “cross-generic signification”, and then analyze the rearrangement of timeline that violates the total omniscient narrative in demonstrating the importance of the deadline 97, bringing up the theme of nostalgia. Moreover, the penetrating theme of “infernal” refers to the Buddhist concept of “continuous hell” which intricately interlocks all the anxiety of existence, psychological distortion and tottering instability. Third, in terms of politics of disappearance, I focus on the space of disappearance in Hong Kong in connection with the disappearance of protagonists, and the juxtaposition between anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, accentuating “quasi-ness” in post-97 Hong Kong. Anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy are not that polarized as they appear to be as they coexist and contrast with each other. I demonstrate the space of disappearance (non-appearance, absence, lack of presence) with the mutual-illumination and camouflage between the cop and the undercover through each other’s disappearance, which reinforces the themes of reincarnation and degeneration. I-Chu Chang 張靄珠 2008 學位論文 ; thesis 87 en_US
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description 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 外國文學與語言學研究所 === 96 === In this thesis, I try to focus on the slippage and in-between-ness of the nationhood, and the dialectics between anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, and conduct my investigation in three directions. First of all, I revisit Hong Kong’s colonial past by mapping the refractions of gangster genre; investigate how post-97 atmosphere reinforces the Infernal Affairs trilogy; finally, how quasi-national allegory is generated. First, I demonstrate the in-between-ness of Hong Kong itself, its cultural productions, and gangster films. Through the interruption and rearrangement of time, the Infernal Affairs trilogy unfolds the heritage of gangster genre and provides the refractions in identity construction to embrace the Motherland China. A quasi-national allegorical approach in the Infernal Affairs trilogy unfolds the triangular relationship of Hong Kong, Britain and China from a neutral perspective. Second, I investigate the postmodern pastiche in the continuously nostalgia aura and the nihility toward the Buddhism with repeating image of reincarnation. I start from the variation on the concept of jianghu to unwrap the “cross-generic signification”, and then analyze the rearrangement of timeline that violates the total omniscient narrative in demonstrating the importance of the deadline 97, bringing up the theme of nostalgia. Moreover, the penetrating theme of “infernal” refers to the Buddhist concept of “continuous hell” which intricately interlocks all the anxiety of existence, psychological distortion and tottering instability. Third, in terms of politics of disappearance, I focus on the space of disappearance in Hong Kong in connection with the disappearance of protagonists, and the juxtaposition between anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, accentuating “quasi-ness” in post-97 Hong Kong. Anthropological places and non-places in the Infernal Affairs trilogy are not that polarized as they appear to be as they coexist and contrast with each other. I demonstrate the space of disappearance (non-appearance, absence, lack of presence) with the mutual-illumination and camouflage between the cop and the undercover through each other’s disappearance, which reinforces the themes of reincarnation and degeneration.
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