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Fragmenting Modernisms: Chinese Wartime Literature, Art, and Film, 1937-49
Author(s): Carolyn FitzGerald (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: June 7, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 360 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004250980
- ISBN-13: 9789004250987
Book Description
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.
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About the Author
Carolyn FitzGerald, Ph.D. (2007), University of Michigan, is an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Auburn University. She has published articles on modern Chinese literature, film, and drama.
