Fragmenting Modernisms : Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, and Film, 1937-49.
Title:
Fragmenting Modernisms : Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, and Film, 1937-49.
Author:
FitzGerald, Carolyn.
ISBN:
9789004250994
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Series:
China Studies ; v.24
China Studies
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
Abstract:
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 fiction, poetry, film, and visual art.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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