South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / Janis P. Stout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stout, Janis P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980--Knowledge and learning--Texas.

Porter, Katherine Anne.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.

Political and social views.

Texas.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980--Knowledge and learning--Mexico.

Mexico.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980--Political and social views.

Texas--In literature.

Mexico--In literature.

Women in literature.

War in literature.

Ambivalence in literature.

Women and literature.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]

Summary:

An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texan and southern origins, South by Southwest offers afresh look at the ever-relevant author. In this volume, Janis P. Stout examines the author and her works within the historical and cultural context from which she emerged. In particular, Stout emphasizes four main themes of Texas history that she believes are of the greatest importance in understanding Porter: Texas's geography and border locale (Porter had a lifelong fascination with marginality, indeterminacy, and escape); its violence (the brutality of her first marriage as well as the lawlessness that pervaded her hometown both surfaced in her writings); its racism (the lynchings that were prevalent throughout her upbringing haunted some of her work); and its marginalization of women (Stout draws a connection between Porter's references to the burning sun and oppressive heat of Texas and her life with her first husband). Book jacket.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-233) and index.

ISBN:

9780817317829

0817317821

9780817386498

0817386491

OCLC:

794036245