South by Southwest : Katherine Anne Porter and the burden of Texas history /
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter's troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, this book offers a fresh look at the author and her work. More than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics and biographers have...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2013]
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=585092 |
Obsah:
- 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.