Title: The Texas legacy of Katherine Anne Porter
Description: 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.
Subjects: Knowledge, Intellectual life, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Texas, Women and literature, In literature, Biography, Porter, katherine anne, 1890-1980, Criticism and interpretation
Places: Texas
People: Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
Time periods: 20th century