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Stout, Janis P.

South by Southwest Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history / [electronic resource] : Janis P. Stout. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (264 p.)

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

ISBN: 9780817386498 0817386491

Subjects--Personal Names:
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Political and social views.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Mexico.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Knowledge--Texas.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Women and literature.
Ambivalence in literature.
War in literature.
Women in literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mexico--In literature.
Texas--In literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS3531.O752 / Z816 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.52