TY - BOOK AU - Stout,Janis P. TI - South by Southwest: Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history SN - 9780817386498 AV - PS3531 .S688 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Porter, Katherine Anne, KW - Women in literature KW - War in literature KW - Ambivalence in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=585092&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -