This stubborn self
Subtitle: Texas autobiographies
By: by Bert Almon.
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: American prose literature -- Texas -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Texas.; Self in literature.; Autobiography.; Texas -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Texas -- Intellectual life.; Texas -- In literature.
Description: "According to Bert Almon, Texas autobiographies reveal as much about the state as about their authors, recording geography and history, economic, social and religious practices. A. sense of place distinguishes Texas autobiographical writing, for it springs from a state considered unique by its citizens and the world in general.

Texas' history - migrations, war with Mexico, brief nationhood, slavery, Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Mexican diaspora of the twentieth century - contributes to what Almon calls Texas' "exceptionalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.