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):

Women in literature.

War in literature.

Ambivalence in literature.

Women and literature.

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

Authors, American.

Texas--In literature.

Texas.

Mexico--In literature.

Mexico.

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

Porter, Katherine Anne.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8649-1

OCLC:

831118444