Fragmenting Modernisms: Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, And Film, 1937-49 (china Studies)

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. 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.--page [4] Of Cover. Introduction: Out Of The Ashes: Towards A Wartime Aesthetics Of Dissolution -- Sonnet In An Air-raid Shelter: Mu Dan And The New Lyricism -- Intercrossings 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. By Carolyn Fitzgerald. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction Out of the Ashes: Towards a Wartime Aesthetics of Dissolution 14 Chapter One A Sonnet in an Air-Raid Shelter: Mu Dan and the New Lyricism 44 Chapter Two Intersections between Cartoon and National Art: Ye Qianyu’s Search for the Sinicized Cartoon 92 Chapter Three Wang Zengqi’s Collection of Chance Encounters: The Shifting Essence of the Wartime Short Story 138 Chapter Four Between Forgetting and the Repetitions of Memory: Fei Mu’s Aesthetics of Desolation in Spring in a Small Town 182 Chapter Five Fei Ming’s After Mr. Neverwas Rides a Plane: Wartime Autobiography as History 230 Epilogue Searching for Roots: Modernist Echoes in the Post-Mao Era 278 Bibliography 312 Index 326 Plate Section 350