ISBN: 0292743114

ID: 7606817

In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools.In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life—even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas.Most important, Walsh discerns how the great swings between depression and elation that characterized Porter's emotional life influenced her alternating visions of Mexico. In such works as "Xochimilco," Porter saw Mexico as an earthly Eden where hopes for a better society could be realized, but in other stories, including "The Fiesta of Guadalupe," she depicts Mexico as a place of hopeless oppression for the native peoples.Mexico, Porter once said, gave her back her Texas past. Given the unhappiness of that past, her feelings toward Mexico would always be ambivalent, but her Mexican experiences i contemporary,criticism and theory,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction,travel Travel, University of Texas Press

1992, ISBN: 9780292743113

ID: 1132927444

Univ of Texas Pr, 1992. A crisp, clean, little-used Very Good copy with discrete private ex-library markings lacking the dust jacket. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life--even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas.. First Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/No Dust Jacket., Univ of Texas Pr, 1992

ISBN: 0292743114

ID: 7606817

Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico : The Illusion of Eden contemporary,criticism and theory,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction,travel Travel, University of Texas Press

1992, ISBN: 9780292743113

ID: 518511944

University of Texas Press, 1992. hbk 269pp donorÕs inscn on fep one annotation on last page otherwise excellent in sleeve protected dj sleeve as new, University of Texas Press, 1992

1992, ISBN: 9780292743113

ID: 581818144

Univ of Texas Pr, 1992-09-01. Hardcover. Used:Good., Univ of Texas Pr, 1992-09-01