TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tanner,James T.F.
TI  - The Texas legacy of Katherine Anne Porter
T2  - Texas writers series
SN  - 092939822X
AV  - PS3531.O752 Z825 1990
U1  - 813/.52 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Denton, Tex.
PB  - University of North Texas Press
KW  - Porter, Katherine Anne,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Texas
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - CHR 1991
KW  - PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Literature
KW  - In literature
KW  - Porter, Katherine Anne
KW  - Knowledge
N1  - Spine title: Katherine Anne Porter; Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index
N2  - In this study of Porter's work, Tanner focuses on Porter's denial of her Texas heritage, her apparent urge to distance herself from Texas and all things Texan. He analyzes Porter's settings and characters, emphasizing and clarifying the influence of her Texas upbringing on her creative art, exploring the conflict between the Texas Porter and the urbane-sophisticate Porter. Born in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter was always a Texas writer, even though she roamed widely, and seemed to represent, for many readers, a more Southern and genteel facet of Texas culture than they were prepared to accept. Tanner deals with Porter as a Texas story-teller, who, her wanderings over the earth notwithstanding, was a Texas writer first and last
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ER  -