02999nam 2200649 a 450 991046288160332120200520144314.00-8173-8649-1(CKB)2670000000340130(EBL)1153513(OCoLC)831118444(SSID)ssj0000856765(PQKBManifestationID)11510191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856765(PQKBWorkID)10818399(PQKB)10425196(MiAaPQ)EBC1153513(MdBmJHUP)muse19106(Au-PeEL)EBL1153513(CaPaEBR)ebr10678102(EXLCZ)99267000000034013020120821d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSouth by Southwest[electronic resource] Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history /Janis P. StoutTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20131 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1782-1 Includes bibliographical references 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.An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have portrayed her as a strikingly glamorous woman whose photographs appeared in society magazines. They have emphasized, of course, her writing- particularly the novel Ship of Fools, which was made into an award-winning film, and her collection Pale HorseWomen in literatureWar in literatureAmbivalence in literatureWomen and literatureAuthors, American20th centuryBiographyTexasIn literatureMexicoIn literatureElectronic books.Women in literature.War in literature.Ambivalence in literature.Women and literature.Authors, American813/.52Stout Janis P1047301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462881603321South by Southwest2474794UNINA