关键词: 西南, 地方诗学, 风物, 歧路, 边地

Abstract: This article establishes a novel interpretive framework to examine contemporary Chinese Southwest literary and cultural expressions. It explores the multiple implications of the Southwest as a culturally elastic borderland through three core concepts: topopoetics, fengwu, and hodology of forking paths. First, I examine the diverse and multifaceted notion of “Southwest” as manifested in literary traditions, languages, geopolitics, history, topography, religion, and ethnicity. Building on this foundation, I underscore the significance of topopoetics as a transmedial entity. It pertains to both topography and the tension between literary subjects and their environment. Furthermore, through Sinophone-Xenophone mesology, I propose the notion of fengwu to examine Southwest cultural expression. Finally, inspired by Kurt Lewin's concept of hodological space, I propose the concept of “hodology of forking paths” to elaborate the (in)visible and (im)possible networks of knowledge exchange through the transmission of topopoetic systems. Through these three concepts, I seek to provide another interpretive framework for understanding the Southwest as part of Chinese, Sinophone, and borderland articulations.

Key words: Southwest China, topopoetics, fengwu, hodos, borderland