Fragmenting Modernisms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004250987)

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.


Author: Carolyn Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 9004250980
ISBN-13: 9789004250987
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2013
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2014