探索与争鸣 ›› 2026, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (7): 166-176.

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“阎蜜”归来:网络女频小说的地府神话再书写

倪湛舸   

  • 出版日期:2026-07-20 发布日期:2026-07-20
  • 作者简介:倪湛舸,弗吉尼亚理工大学政治学系教授,苏州大学文学院特聘教授。(江苏苏州 215123)

The Return of Yami: Rewriting the Ancient Myths of the Underworld in Women-Oriented Web Novels

Ni Zhan’ge   

  • Online:2026-07-20 Published:2026-07-20

摘要: 在前现代中国的神话体系中,地府起到审判罪孽,清除障碍,保障生死轮回正常进行的作用,而地府的塑造则以帝制国家的官僚机构为原型。在当代网络玄幻小说中,女性作者对地府进行了再想象,她们所关注的人物不再是明清小说中作为男性文化精英欲望投射的女鬼,也不是欧美哥特文学里受侵犯、受抑制的女性,而是地府里各等级的官僚。通过对《兼职无常后我红了》(2020—2021)、《判官》(2020—2021)和《问棺》(2019—2020)三部网络小说的解读,可以展现女性玄幻小说如何与文化理论界的“幽灵转向”相呼应,把地府改造成舒张女性欲望、建立女性主体的乌托邦。在这个乌托邦里,我们召唤男权历史中被遮蔽的古老女神“阎蜜”,把重建任务从个人命运拓展到社会秩序和文明图景。

关键词: 玄幻小说, 女频, 阎蜜, 流量, 幽灵转向

Abstract: In premodern Chinese mythology, the underworld plays the role of adjudicating sins, removing obstacles, and ensuring the smooth transition between life and death. The shaping of the underworld is modeled after the bureaucratic system of the imperial state. In contemporary fantasy novels, women writers have reimagined the Chinese underworld. They focus their attention on the bureaucrats of various levels instead of the female ghost, the object onto which the male elites projected their desire in late-imperial vernacular fiction, or the female victim as represented in gothic fiction of the Euro-American West. Through an analysis of three texts, it demonstrates how female fantasy, while resonating with the “spectral turn” in cultural theory, has transformed the underworld into a utopia for the articulation of female desire and the construction of the female subject. In this underground utopia, we welcome back the goddesses exiled in the history of patriarchy and aspire to build alternative social orders and civilizational visions, extending from individual destinies to social orders and civilizational visions.

Key words: fantasy novels, women-oriented fiction, Yami, flow, spectral turn