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

From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, Zitkala-Sa, Nella Larsen, and Helena Maria Viramontes), From Subjection to Survival establishes a genealogy of how women writers claim the power and possibility of visual art to make sense of their experiences. These writers write about women and feature female protagonists who engage with art as painters, writers, muses, or icons in the texts themselves. The texts are written visually to expose the fundamental substantiation of gender in art and the unavoidable aestheticization of women in daily life. As every text in this book makes clear, women can claim substantial power through art. Yet, aestheticization is not always positive. As a consequence of such negative possibilities, the artistic self-referentiality of all of the texts in From Subjection to Survival exposes a negotiated course between subjectivity and objectness which women experience when engaging with art. From Subjection to Survival studies this negotiated course to lay bare the difficult path of women's artistic and aesthetic experience, but ultimately to claim the power and the possibility of the visual arts for women.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2023
Authors:	Molly J. Freitas
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-242387-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-03-242387-0
Barcode:	9781032423876

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