Asian Journal of Social Studies
AJSS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.25-31.
Print ISSN: 3106-6836; Online ISSN: 3106-6844
Journal homepage: https://www.assjournal.com
DOI：Https://doi.org/10.64058/AJSS260104ddhpp
吴 琛（Wu Chen），郭紫薇（Florence Kuek）
摘要：《马桥词典》以“词典体”的叙事形式，用语言搭建起了一个民间的异托邦。本文旨在使用福柯的权力话语理论对马桥这个异托邦进行话语分析。语言在其中作为话语存在，它选择着语言的使用者并规范着地域文化的秩序。权力通过话语对人们展开规训与放逐，实现着达到稳定性的功能。而在面临外来的现代性和外来的权力话语冲击时，马桥的民间话语在显示出拒斥形态的同时也接纳和改变了外来的话语。马桥的世界本质上是由话语碎片拼贴而成的混杂场域，权力的城邦既在规训中自我固化，又在现代性的烙印下发生着深刻的语义重塑与生存变迁。
关键词:《马桥词典》；权力话语；福柯；异托邦
作者介绍：吴琛（2001-），男，天津人，马来亚大学中文系硕士研究生，从事中国现当代文学研究。邮箱：530563746@qq.com，联系电话：+(86)18322089156，通讯地址：天津市蓟州区津围线华府御墅。郭紫薇（1971-），女，马六甲人，马来亚大学中文系高级讲师，文学批评与翻译研究。邮箱：florencekuek@um.edu.my，联络电话：+(60)164459274，通讯地址：马来西亚马来亚大学人文与社会科学学院中文系。
Title: Discipline, Discourse, and Heterotopia: A Power Perspective on A Dictionary of Maqiao
Abstract: Utilizing the narrative form of a "dictionary-style" novel, A Dictionary of Maqiao constructs a folk heterotopia through language. This paper aims to conduct a discursive analysis of this Maqiao heterotopia using Michel Foucault’s theory of power-discourse. Within this space, language exists as discourse; it selects its users and regulates the order of regional culture. Power exerts discipline and exile over individuals through discourse, fulfilling its function of maintaining stability. When confronted with the impact of external modernity and foreign power-discourses, the folk discourse of Maqiao exhibits a stance of rejection while simultaneously assimilating and transforming these external influences. The world of Maqiao is essentially a hybrid field collaged from discursive fragments. This "city-state of power" both solidifies itself through discipline and undergoes profound semantic reshaping and existential transformation under the imprint of modernity.
Keywords: A Dictionary of Maqiao; Power discourse; Michel Foucault; Heterotopia
Author Biographies: Wu Chen (2001-), male, native of Tianjin, Master’s student in the Department of Chinese Studies at Universiti Malaya, primarily engaged in the research of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature. Email: 530563746@qq.com, Tel: +(86)18322089156, Mailing Address: Huafu Yushu, Jinwei Line, Jizhou District, Tianjin. Florence Kuek (1971-), female, native of Malacca, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chinese Studies at Universiti Malaya, specializing in Literary Criticism and Translation Studies. Email: florencekuek@um.edu.my, Tel: +(60)164459274, Mailing Address: Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.a
