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

Title
South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / Janis P. Stout.
Author
Stout, Janis P.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.

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Description
xix, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history
Subject
  • 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 > Biography
  • Texas > In literature
  • Mexico > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.
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
Call Number
JFE 13-4477
ISBN
  • 9780817317829 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0817317821 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780817386498 (ebk.)
  • 0817386491 (ebk.)
LCCN
2012031750
OCLC
794036245
Author
Stout, Janis P.
Title
South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / Janis P. Stout.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-4477
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