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Fragmenting modernisms : Chinese wartime literature, art, and film, 1937-49 / by Carolyn FitzGerald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- FitzGerald, Carolyn.
- Series:
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 24.
- China studies ; volume 24
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Literature and the war.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Art and the war.
- Modernism (Art).
- History.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Literature and the war.
- China.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Art and the war.
- Motion pictures--China--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Art, Chinese--20th century.
- Art, Chinese.
- Modernism (Literature)--China.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Art)--China.
- Genre:
- Art and the war.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 334 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Includes Chinese with English translations.
- Summary:
- In Fragmenting Modernisms, Carolyn FitzGerald traces the evolution of Chinese modernism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-45) and Chinese Civil War (1945-49) through a series of close readings of works of fiction, poetry, film, and visual art, produced in various locations throughout wartime China. Showing that the culture of this period was characterized by a high degree of formal looseness, she argues that such aesthetic fluidity was created in response to historical conditions of violence and widespread displacement. Moreover, she illustrates how the innovative formal experiments of uprooted writers and artists expanded not only the aesthetic parameters of Chinese modernism, but also its aesthetic boundaries far beyond the coastal cities of Shanghai and Beijing. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: out of the ashes: towards a wartime aesthetics of dissolution
- A sonnet in an air-raid shelter: Mu Dan and the new lyricism
- Intersections between cartoon and national art: Ye Qianyu's search for the sinicized cartoon
- Wang Zengqi's Collection of chance encounters: the shifting essence of the wartime short story
- Between forgetting and the repetitions of memory: Fei Mu's aesthetics of desolation in Spring in a small town
- Fei Ming's After Mr. Neverwas rides a plane: wartime autobiography as history
- Searching for roots: modernists echoes in the post-Mao era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004250980
- 9789004250987
- OCLC:
- 837921778
- Publisher Number:
- 99955076732
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