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Katherine Anne Porter and Texas : An title: Uneasy Relationship author: Machann, Clinton.; Clark, William Bedford. publisher: Texas A&M University Press isbn10 | asin: 0890964416 print isbn13: 9780890964415 ebook isbn13: 9780585174549 language: English Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980-- Knowledge--Texas, Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980--Homes and haunts-- Texas, Women and literature--Texas-- subject History--20th century, Authors, American- -20th century--Biography, Texas--In literature, Texas--Biography. publication date: 1990 lcc: PS3531.O752Z716 1990eb ddc: 813/.52 Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980-- Knowledge--Texas, Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980--Homes and haunts-- subject: Texas, Women and literature--Texas-- History--20th century, Authors, American- -20th century--Biography, Texas--In literature, Texas--Biography. Page i Katherine Anne Porter and Texas Page iii Katherine Anne Porter and Texas An Uneasy Relationship Edited by Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark Texas A & M University Press College Station Page iv Copyright (c) 1990 by Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Edition Frontispiece: The celebrated portrait of the writer in the early 1930s, photographed by George Pratt Lynes. Courtesy Lynes Estate The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Katherine Anne Porter and Texas : an uneasy relationship / edited by Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark. p. cm. ISBN 0-89096-441-6 (alk. paper) 1. Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 Knowledge Texas. 2. Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 Homes and haunts Texas. 3. Authors, American 20th century Biography. 4. Texas in literature. 5. Texas Biography. I. Machann, Clinton. II. Clark, William Bedford. PS3531.0752Z716 1990 813´.52-dc20 [B] 89-20667 CIP Page v FOR Alena, Tessie, and Sarah AND Mary and Eleanor Page vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: A Folklorist Looks at Katherine Anne Porter xiii Sylvia Ann Grider Part I. Personal Recollections Indian Creek: A Sketch from Memory 3 Willene Hendrick The Woman and Artist I Knew 13 Cleanth Brooks Remembering Aunt Katherine 25 Paul Porter Part II. Katherine Anne Porter and the Transfiguring Imagination Problems of Personal Identity in Texas' "First Writer" 41 Joan Givner A Southern Writer in Texas: Porter and the Texas Literary 58 Tradition Don Graham From Texas to Mexico to Texas 72 Thomas F. Walsh Page viii Estranging Texas: Porter and the Distance from Home 86 Janis P. Stout Porter's Sources and Influences 102 Darlene Harbour Unrue Part III. "The Homeless One Home Again": A Texas Bibliography of Katherine Anne Porter "The Homeless One Home again" 115 Sally Dee Wade A Texas Bibliography of Katherine Anne Porter 124 Contributors 183 Index 185 Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS Katherine Anne Porter in the early 1930s frontispiece Katherine Anne and her father, Harrison Boone Porter 5 Katherine Anne's mother, Mary Alice Jones Porter 7 Callie (Katherine Anne) Porter at Indian Creek, Texas 8 Porter with her sister and grandmother 10 Katherine Anne Porter at age eighty-five 36
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