This stubborn self : Texas autobiographies / by Bert Almon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almon, Bert, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--Texas--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Texas.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Intellectual life.

Texas.

Texas--Biography--History and criticism.

Texas--Intellectual life.

Texas--In literature.

Self in literature.

Autobiography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 419 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2002]

Contents:

Lambshead legends: Sallie Reynolds Matthews

Gathering traditions: John A. Lomax and J. Frank Dobie

The confessions of Gertrude Beasley

From greenhorn to chile queen: Hallie Crawford Stillwell

Autobiography by interview: Jewel Babb, Charley C. White, and Annie Mae Hunt

Baptized in earth: William A. Owens and Northeast Texas

An Anglo vaquero of the Brush Country: John Houghton Allen

The journeys of A.C. Greene

All the time in the world: William Humphrey's Clarksville

The autobiographer in denial: Larry McMurtry

From the borderlands: Pat Mora, Gloria López-Stafford, and Ray Gonzalez

Mary Karr's family sideshow

The Mexican diaspora and John Phillip Santos

Conclusion: are Texans still Texans?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-391) and index.

ISBN:

0875652662

OCLC:

49260141