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This stubborn self : Texas autobiographies /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Almon, Bert, 1943-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2002]
Subjects:
American prose literature > Texas > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Texas.
Texas > Biography > History and criticism.
Texas > Intellectual life.
Texas > In literature.
Self in literature.
Autobiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Lambshead legends: Sallie Reynolds Matthews
  • Gathering traditions: John A. Lomax and J. Frank Dobie
  • The confessions of Gertrude Beasley
  • From greenhorn to chile queen: Hallie Crawford Stillwell
  • Autobiography by interview: Jewel Babb, Charley C. White, and Annie Mae Hunt
  • Baptized in earth: William A. Owens and Northeast Texas
  • An Anglo vaquero of the Brush Country: John Houghton Allen
  • The journeys of A.C. Greene
  • All the time in the world: William Humphrey's Clarksville
  • The autobiographer in denial: Larry McMurtry
  • From the borderlands: Pat Mora, Gloria López-Stafford, and Ray Gonzalez
  • Mary Karr's family sideshow
  • The Mexican diaspora and John Phillip Santos
  • Conclusion: are Texans still Texans?