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title	:	The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter Texas Writers Series ; No. 3
author	:	Tanner, James T. F.
publisher	:	University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin	:	092939822X
print isbn13	:	9780929398228
ebook isbn13	:	9780585270555
language	:	English
subject	Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980--Knowledge--Texas, Women and literature--Texas--History--20th century, Women authors, American--20th century--Biography, Texas--In literature, Texas--Biography.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	PS3531.O752Z825 1990eb
ddc	:	813/.52
subject	:	Porter, Katherine Anne,--1890-1980--Knowledge--Texas, Women and literature--Texas--History--20th century, Women authors, American--20th century--Biography, Texas--In literature, Texas--Biography.

Page iii The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter by James T.F. Tanner TEXAS WRITERS SERIES NUMBER THREE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS PRESS

Page iv TEXAS WRITERS SERIES NUMBER THREE General Editor James Ward Lee Copyright 1990 by James T. F. Tanner All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition, 1991 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to the University of North Texas Press, P.O. Box 13856, Denton, Texas 76203-3856. The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tanner, James T. F., 1937 The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter / by James T.F. Tanner.1st ed. p. cm. (Texas writers series : no. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-929398-22-X : $19.95 1. Porter, Katherine Anne, 18901980Criticism and interpretation. 2. Porter, Katherine Anne, 18901980 KnowledgeTexas. 3. Authors, American20th century Biography. 4. Texas in literature. 5. TexasBiography. I. Title. II. Series. PS3531.0752Z825 1990 813'.52dc20 90-23052 CIP

Page v FOR JANE LEE HINKLE TANNER

Page vii TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 1 Katherine Anne Porter and Texas Letters 7 "A Little Girl from Texas": The Life of Katherine Anne Porter 41 Stories of Texas, the South, and Southwest 64 Stories of Mexico 132 Stories of New York and New England 154 Stories of Germany: "The Leaning Tower" and Ship of Fools 166 Conclusion 191 Selected Bibliography 199 Index 225

Page 1 Foreword During the composition of this critical study of Katherine Anne Porter, I have kept in mind the projected major emphasis of the books to appear in the Texas Writers Seriesthe influence of the Texas place on the author, focusing on writers whose Texas connections have not been fully examined. There is, of course, no lack of secondary scholarship and criticism on the life and work of Katherine Anne Porter; but scholarly and critical study of the relationship between Porter's fiction and her Texas background has not by any means been exhausted. Katherine Anne Porter fits precisely, therefore, into the emphasis of the Texas Writers Series; it is exactly thatthe Texas connectionthat has not yet been extensively treated. I am particularly concerned with Porter's seeming denial of her Texas heritage, her apparent urge to distance herself from Texas and all things Texanan urge that apparently led her to re-create herself into the being she would like to have been, while disavowing her real identity. This self-made myth of Katherine Anne Porter is fascinating in itself, and of considerable importance

Page 2 for students of Texas culture. For this reason, I have focused continuously on Porter's settings and characters, attempting to emphasize and clarify the influence of the Texas upbringing on her creative art. Still, I understand the risk of provincialism involved in a study of this sort. The reader will note that I title the book The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter; the central tension in Porter's work is, it seems to me, the conflict between the Texas Porter and the urbane-sophisticate Porter, the continual reference to her roots alongside the sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious rejection of those roots. Her wanderings over the earth notwithstanding, Katherine Anne Porter was a Texas writer first and last. In April of 1988, a three-day conference, titled "Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship," was hosted by Texas A&M University. Speaking at the conference were such notables as Cleanth Brooks, the distinguished "New Critic" and personal friend of Katherine Anne Porter; Joan Givner, author of Katherine Anne Porter: A Life, the definitive biography; Don Graham, a leading authority on Texas literature; Paul Porter, nephew of Katherine Anne Porter, who, as he candidly pointed out in quoting Gertrude Stein's remark of him, "has traveled far on his nephewship"; and Professors Darlene H. Unrue, Thomas Walsh, W. Craig Turner,

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