Flowering Judas: Katherine Anne Porter

Flowering Judas: Katherine Anne Porter
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 August 1993
Pages
230
ISBN
9780813519791

Flowering Judas: Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter often spoke of her story
Flowering Judas
as the tale she liked best of all her stories because it came the nearest to what she meant it to be. It is the story of Laura, an idealistic woman, who travels to Mexico from Arizona at the age of twenty-two to assist the Obregon Revolution. This casebook on
Flowering Judas
addresses Porter’s ambivalence surrounding her roles as woman and artist and also attests to the profound influence of Mexico upon her work. Readers of this early tale will not be surprised to learn that although Porter was a practicing feminist in her life and her work, she actually eschewed the feminist label. Virginia Spencer Carr brings her own sharply focused biographer’s eye to the introduction, further illuminating the story and the superb critical essays that it provokes. The casebook includes the authoritative text of the story itself, Porter’s own statement regarding the genesis of this highly acclaimed work, an important interview, a collection of significant essays on
Flowering Judas
and the historical, cultural, and personal milieu from which the tale evolved, a bibliography, and a chronology of Porter’s life and work.

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