From Subjection to Survival: The Artistry of American Women Writers - Paperback

by Molly J. Freitas (Author)

This book is a work of feminist scholarship at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining 6 diverse multiethnic American women writers of the 20th century, it establishes a genealogy of how women writers claim the power and possibility of visual art to make sense of their experiences

Author Biography

Molly J. Freitas is currently a dean at Bard College. Previously, she was an English professor and led the scholarship program at West Point, the United States Military Academy. Her work has previously been published in American Literary Realism, Soundings, and Studies in the Novel. She holds a master's degree from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Tufts University. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her family.