Fragmenting Modernisms

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.

• Introduction Out of the Ashes: Towards a Wartime Aesthetics of DissolutionChapter One A Sonnet in an Air-Raid Shelter: Mu Dan and the New LyricismChapter Two Intersections between Cartoon and National Art: Ye Qianyu's Search for the Sinicized CartoonChapter Three Wang Zenqi's Collection of Chance Encounters: The Shifting Essence of the Wartime Short StoryChapter Four Between Forgetting and the Repetitions of Memory: Fei Mu's Aesthetics of Desolation in Spring in a Small TownChapter Five Fei Ming's After Mr. Neverwas Rides a Plane: Wartime Autobiography as HistoryEpilogue Searching for Roots: Modernist Echoes in the Post-Mao Era