The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter
The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter
University of Georgia Press | December 12, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0820327565 | 264 pages | PDF | 6.47 MB
University of Georgia Press | December 12, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0820327565 | 264 pages | PDF | 6.47 MB
During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American women. Mary Titus draws upon unpublished Porter papers, as well as newly available editions of her early fiction, poetry, and reviews, to trace Porter’s shifting and complex response to those cultural changes. Titus shows how Porter explored her own ambivalence about gender and creativity, for she experienced firsthand a remarkable range of ideas concerning female sexuality. These included the Victorian attitudes of the grandmother who raised her; the sexual license of revolutionary Mexico, 1920s New York, and 1930s Paris; and the conservative, ordered attitudes of the Agrarians.