South by Southwest [[electronic resource] ] : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / / Janis P. Stout

• Autore: Stout Janis P
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetto topico: Women in literature; War in literature; Ambivalence in literature; Women and literature; Authors, American - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Texas In literature; Mexico In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Horse
• Titolo autorizzato: South by Southwest
• ISBN: 0-8173-8649-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462881603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II