《回到沿海》是海洋文學作家廖鴻基於2012 年出版之作品。是作家在海洋行旅與寫作經驗的日愈豐富成熟後，面對此刻沿海景象的凋零，而嘗試以記憶回返二十年前的黑潮漁撈景況之書寫。在本書寫作背景下，本文要討論的問題是： 作家究竟如何看待記憶中的這片沿海與漁撈生活？此刻的沿海景象所觸及的作家隱憂為何？既已寫過《討海人》， 那麼，從《討海人》到《回到沿海》，二十年的時間歷程後，作家是如何重新賦予那片海面，那一場場捕撈記憶以獨特的意義？在作家的海洋與書寫歷程中，沿海，以及發生在其上的漁撈記憶，究竟佔據著怎樣的位置？最後，廖鴻基每每自謂以「海洋使者」來看待自己的作家身份， 亦即希望透過書寫， 興發向來與海疏離的島嶼居民們，重新體認被海洋所圍繞的生存真理，那麼我們是否能在詮釋中聆聽海洋的訊息？如此的聆聽又能體現怎樣的文化意義？ 本文將試圖透過「時間」、「身體」與「記憶」三條互為張力的線索展開討論。 “Back to the Coast” by Hung-Chi Liao, a Taiwanese Ocean literature writer, is a latest work published in 2012. This book features a writing of Liao’s memory going back to the scene of fishing in the Kuroshiro current twenty years ago when facing the withered coastal scene at this point in time after his ocean trave land writing experience have become more plentiful and mature. In the context of writing for this book, this essay discusses issues including how does the writer treat life along the coast and the fishing life in his memory and what is the writer ’s hidden worry the coastal scene has touched. Since Liao has published ”Fishermen,” how does the writer reendow the sea and memories of fishing with distinct signification after two-decade course of his writing from“Fishermen”to“Back to the Coas?” In writer ’s ocean and writing experience, what place does the coast and the memory of fishing occurring on it takes? Finally, Liao often claims himself an “ocean messenger“ to treat his status as a writer, i.e. he hopes to lead island and islet habitants who have maintained their isolation from ocean all the time to an awareness of the truth about survival surrounded by ocean through writing,and if we can listen to the ocean message in interpretation? What cultural significance can be embodied in such listening? This essay tries to use three clues of inter-tension to open up discussion through“time,” “body” and “memory”.
