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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811870703321

Autore

FitzGerald Carolyn

Titolo

Fragmenting modernisms [[electronic resource] ] : Chinese wartime literature, art, and film, 1937-49 / / by Carolyn FitzGerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-25099-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

China studies ; ; v. 24

Disciplina

895.1/09005

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - Literature and the war

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Motion pictures - China - History - 20th century

Art, Chinese - 20th century

Modernism (Literature) - China

Modernism (Art) - China

China History Civil War, 1945-1949 Literature and the war

China History Civil War, 1945-1949 Art and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.