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From Texas to the World and Back - Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter (Hardcover)
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From Texas to the World and Back - Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter (Hardcover)
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Katherine Anne Porter's uneasy relationship with her home state has
become increasingly important to discussions of her life and work.
Born in the now-gone community of Indian Creek and raised in Kyle,
Porter is tied to Texas by three major events that occurred during
her career. In 1939 she expected to receive the Texas Institute of
Letters Award for "Best Texas Book" only to be insulted when the
award went to folklorist J. Frank Dobie. In the 1950s she accepted
an invitation to lecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
During her visit to present that lecture, Porter began to believe
that UT would build a library and name it after her, Texas' most
famous literary daughter. But somehow she and UT President Harry
Ransom miscommunicated, and Porter left her materials to the
McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland. Finally, in 1976
she returned to Texas to receive recognition from Howard Payne
University in Brownwood. On that trip she visited her mother's
grave in the little cemetery at Indian Creek and decided that her
remains on her death belonged beside her mother. So Porter finally
returned to the state she had fled early in her life. The essays in
this collection are based primarily upon a symposium held in May
1998 at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. The
collection includes essays by both scholars of Porter's work and of
Texas literature. Some concern specific aspects of her life, such
as her love for her birthday or her marital record. Others focus on
the main elements of her relationship with Texas, while still
others deal with specific works, often relating them to her Texas
heritage. This important addition to Porter studies provides new
insight into the ways in which Porter's Texas heritage shaped her
life and her fiction.
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