{"product_id":"katherine-anne-porter-and-mexico-the-illusion-of-eden-9781477305249","title":"Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico: The Illusion of Eden","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eFlowering Judas and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShip of Fools\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eFlowering Judas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexico, 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 influenced all her subsequent works to some degree, even those pieces not specifically Mexican in setting. Walsh's study, then, is an essential key for anyone seeking greater understanding of the life or works of Katherine Anne Porter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas F. Walsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477305249","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43945400008841,"sku":"9781477305249","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8cdae5a0-f99c-4c57-a87f-c693e5abf935.jpg?v=1745912017","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/katherine-anne-porter-and-mexico-the-illusion-of-eden-9781477305249","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}