"Miscellaneous Writing"about Battlefield Experience:Ding Ling's Frontline Accounts and Her Writing Form
Before and after the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Invaders,Ding Ling traveled several times to the Red Army's frontline.She worked as needed in the frontline as a non-combat person or an"organizer"(of activities to entertain soldiers,farmers,and more)and wrote about the difficult wartime environment.While she was"getting to know one person after another",she paid attention to the subtle fluctuations of thoughts and feelings,ultimately piecing together numerous"fragments"to complete a form of writing,known as"miscellaneous writing"("杂写")that served as a"documentary about life"in the battlefield.This"miscellaneous writing"("杂写")form effectively captured the experience of life in the frontline.Distinct from the general battlefield writing,Ding Ling's"miscellaneous writing"did not contain excerpts from other forms of writings.Instead,it comprised a vast array of sketches of per-sons,accounts about work,as well as prefaces,postscripts,performance notes,essays,and more,offering a holistic portrayal of the inter-twined processes of work,writing,and life.On the one hand,Ding Ling broke away from the traditional impressionistic style of expression through her"fragmentary"writing,allowing her to flexibly present the revolutionaries'historical practical experiences that were disrupted by the war.On the other hand,by adopting a"miscellaneous writing"form,she freed her writing from the constraints of conceptual per-spectives such as"styles",reconnecting writing with life and work.Ding Ling's experiences in the battlefield and her practice of miscel-laneous writing could,thus,be regarded as a unique life journey that not only reshaped her literary writing but also broadened her percep-tion and understanding of the revolution and life.
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