Title
Why She Wrote about Mexico: Katherine Anne Porter and the Literature of Experience
Document Type
Article
Annotation
In situating Porter’s Mexico-based stories within the development of US literature of experience, Lawrence examines her connection to other expatriate authors. Attributes Porter’s denigrating characterization of Hemingway as an adventurer to her desire to solidify her position as a true experiential writer.
Published in
Twentieth-Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal
Volume
64
Issue
1
Date
2018
Pages
25-52
COinS
Citation
Lawrence, Jeffrey. “Why She Wrote about Mexico: Katherine Anne Porter and the Literature of Experience.” Twentieth-Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 64, no. 1 (Mar. 2018): 25-52.