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This stubborn self : Texas autobiographies
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- Creator
- by Bert Almon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xi, 419 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780875652665, 0875652662
- OCLC
- ocm49260141
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-391) and index.
- 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?
Subjects
- American prose literature -- Texas -- History and criticism.
- American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Texas.
- Self in literature.
- Autobiography.
- Texas -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Texas -- Intellectual life.
- Texas -- In literature.