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South by Southwest Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history /

Main Author: Stout, Janis P.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.
Subjects:
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Knowledge > Texas.
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Knowledge > Mexico.
Porter, Katherine Anne, > 1890-1980 > Political and social views.
Women in literature.
War in literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
Women and literature.
Authors, American > 20th century
Texas > In literature.
Mexico > In literature.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10678102
Table of 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.

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