魯迅的短篇小說〈祝福〉（1924年）描述了類自傳體敘事者「我」回故鄉魯鎮的經歷，但回鄉後的「我」立即表示：「雖說故鄉，然而已沒有家」。90年以後，馬來西亞華文作家黃錦樹寫了同名短篇小說〈祝福〉（2014年），以相似的歸鄉情節作為其開頭：已成年的敘事者帶著父親的骨灰，從中國回到吉隆坡－父親大半輩子被禁止入境的「故鄉」。本文以這兩篇小說為起點，探討一套跟故鄉與離散有關的問題。

Lu Xun's short story ＂Benediction＂ (published in 1924) describes the return to his hometown of a quasi-autobiographical first-person narrator, who on arrival there remarks, ＂although this was my hometown, it was no longer my home.＂ Ninety years later, the ethnically Chinese Malaysian author Ng Kim Chew wrote a story with the same title, which opens with a similar description of a return to a hometown: the adult narrator takes her father's ashes back to Kuala Lumpur-after the father had been prevented from returning to his Malaysian homeland for the entire latter half of his life. This essay uses these two stories as a starting point from which to explore a set of questions relating to homelands and diaspora.

魯迅；黃錦樹；故鄉；離散

Lu Xun; Ng Kim Chew; hometown/homeland; diaspora