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Fragmenting modernisms [electronic resource] : Chinese wartime literature, art, and film, 1937-49 / by Carolyn FitzGerald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- FitzGerald, Carolyn.
- Series:
- China Studies 24.
- China studies ; v. 24
- Language:
- 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.
- Motion pictures--China--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Art, Chinese--20th century.
- Art, Chinese.
- Modernism (Literature)--China.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Art)--China.
- Modernism (Art).
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Literature and the war.
- China.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Art and the war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 the geographic and aesthetic boundaries of Chinese modernism far beyond the coastal cities of Shanghai and Beijing.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction Out of the Ashes: Towards a Wartime Aesthetics of Dissolution
- Chapter One A Sonnet in an Air-Raid Shelter: Mu Dan and the New Lyricism
- Chapter Two Intersections between Cartoon and National Art: Ye Qianyu’s Search for the Sinicized Cartoon
- Chapter Three Wang Zengqi’s Collection of Chance Encounters: The Shifting Essence of the Wartime Short Story
- Chapter Four Between Forgetting and the Repetitions of Memory: Fei Mu’s Aesthetics of Desolation in Spring in a Small Town
- Chapter Five Fei Ming’s After Mr. Neverwas Rides a Plane: Wartime Autobiography as History
- Epilogue Searching for Roots: Modernist Echoes in the Post-Mao Era
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-25099-9
- OCLC:
- 849248182
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004250994 DOI
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