This stubborn self : Texas autobiographies / by Bert Almon. [electronic resource]

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.

Texas--Biography--History and criticism.

Texas.

Texas--Intellectual life.

Texas--In literature.

Self in literature.

Autobiography.

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

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

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 419 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A book of different texan writers and their recollection on Texas.

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 (p. [359]-391) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-44253-3