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South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history
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- Creator
- Janis P. Stout
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- xix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0817317821, 9780817386498, 9780817317829, 0817386491
- OCLC
- ocn831118444, ocn847619715, ocn794036245
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-233) and index.
- 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
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 -- Biography.
- Texas -- In literature.
- Mexico -- In literature.