2010-08-012024-05-18https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/702274摘要：艾特伍德的《羚羊與雉雞》（2003）和勒瑰恩的《訴說》（2000）皆試圖指涉當代社會或文化的缺失和匱乏，以達針砭之效。《羚羊與雉雞》是所謂的「末日小說」或「末日後小說」，主要描述基因科技失控導致世界末日。有別於以往末日小說常出現的題材，《羚羊與雉雞》著眼於與新世紀息息相關的議題──基因科技的失控和生態災難。艾特伍德鋪陳科技失控的浩劫以及人造人的荒謬，凸顯其對於科技和人類關係的焦慮。作為新世紀的反烏托邦作品，《羚羊與雉雞》的內涵和訴求已與艾特伍德1985 年的反烏托邦作品──《侍女故事》──有絕大不同。 《訴說》也是一部甚具新世紀意涵的作品。作為瀚星系列小說的一份子，《訴說》確實有很多前此小說──如《一無所有》──的影子。然而《訴說》更著眼於如何在全球化風潮以及跨國企業/科技宰制的情境中開啟思辨的空間，多方呈現科技宰制的黑暗面，撻伐科技和商品化社會對於人類的扭曲，並強調語言/文字/文學/文化等「老舊」的事物實是新世紀人類的寶貴資產。相對於《一無所有》等作品中烏托邦/反烏托邦勢均力敵，《訴說》中的烏托邦園地已退縮至山區一隅。然則，相對於《羚羊與雉雞》的一籌莫展，《訴說》中仍潛藏著抗拒的能量和改變的希望。 <br> Abstract: Both Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling (2000) raise issues integral to contemporary culture and society. As an apocalyptic fiction or post-apocalyptic fiction, Oryx and Crake portrays the catastrophe of resorting to biotechnology to help establish utopia. Unlike other apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic fictions which focus on the end of civilization through nuclear war, plague, extraterrestrial threats, or some other disasters, Oryx and Crake pinpoints the adverse effects of biotechnology and the ambiguity of a posthuman utopia. Oryx and Crake has relevance to the immediate concerns of the New Millennium and is drastically different from Atwood’s famous dystopian work of 1985—The Handmaid’s Tale. The Telling is a Millennial fable in the sense that it is a critique of the New Leviathan—global cultural hegemony. While as a work in the Hainish Series The Telling does hark back to The Dispossessed for example, The Telling is unique in various aspects. It attempts to inquire into the role played by science and technology, investigates the implications of globalization, and is centrally concerned with the adverse or even catastrophic impact transnational corporate power and technological tycoons may have on humans. From a comparative perspective it would also be of interest to conduct a comparative study of Oryx and Crake and The Telling to see whether, in face of catastrophe, hope and resistance are still pertinent to the genre of dystopia in the new century.愛特伍德勒瑰恩反烏托邦AtwoodLe GuinDystopia