South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history /
Stout, Janis P.
South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history Janis P. Stout. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xix, 242 pages :) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Callie Russell Porter's Texas : history, geoculture, and the need to escape -- Away and yet not away -- The Mexican dream and its realities -- Recalling childhood : beauty, death, and "The old order" -- Seizing the moment : endless memory and "Noon wine" -- Awakening the Southern belle from her dream of a horse race -- Racial nightmares and "The man in the tree" -- War's alarms : three Texans, two wars -- Two almost-last straws -- Sexual politics and Ship of Fools -- Never reconciled.
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author. Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have portrayed her as a strikingly glamorous woman whose photographs appeared in society magazines. They have emphasized, of course, her writing- particularly the novel Ship of Fools, which was made into an award-winning film, and her collection Pale Horse.
9780817386498
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Texas.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Mexico.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Political and social views.
Women in literature.
War in literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
Women and literature.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PS3531 / .S688 2013
South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history Janis P. Stout. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xix, 242 pages :) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Callie Russell Porter's Texas : history, geoculture, and the need to escape -- Away and yet not away -- The Mexican dream and its realities -- Recalling childhood : beauty, death, and "The old order" -- Seizing the moment : endless memory and "Noon wine" -- Awakening the Southern belle from her dream of a horse race -- Racial nightmares and "The man in the tree" -- War's alarms : three Texans, two wars -- Two almost-last straws -- Sexual politics and Ship of Fools -- Never reconciled.
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author. Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have portrayed her as a strikingly glamorous woman whose photographs appeared in society magazines. They have emphasized, of course, her writing- particularly the novel Ship of Fools, which was made into an award-winning film, and her collection Pale Horse.
9780817386498
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Texas.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Mexico.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Political and social views.
Women in literature.
War in literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
Women and literature.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Electronic Books.
PS3531 / .S688 2013