This stubborn self

By Bert Almon

Subjects: Homes and haunts, Texas, biography, Biography, English, Intellectual life, In literature, Écrivains américains, American Authors, Literature, Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Biographies, General, Self in literature, Dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American Literature, Vie intellectuelle, Autobiography, Autobiography (genre), American, History and criticism, American prose literature, Histoire et critique, Languages & Literatures, Résidences et lieux familiers, Authors, American, American prose literature, history and criticism, Autobiographie, Prose américaine

Description: "According to Bert Almon, Texas autobiographies reveal as much about the state as about their authors, recording geography and history, economic, social and religious practices. A. sense of place distinguishes Texas autobiographical writing, for it springs from a state considered unique by its citizens and the world in general. Texas' history - migrations, war with Mexico, brief nationhood, slavery, Indian Wars, the Civil War, the Mexican diaspora of the twentieth century - contributes to what Almon calls Texas' "exceptionalism.""--BOOK JACKET.