Strings of Life: Memory as Myth in Porter’s Miranda Stories

Stoleriu, Oana-Raisa

doi:10.1515/rjes-2016-0008

Abstract

The Pulitzer-prize writer, Katherine Anne Porter, dedicates a great part of her work to the Southern history. Through Miranda’s memories, this writer questions some of the major Southern myths – the Southern belle, the Southern family. This paper aims to highlight the moulding of a feminine voice of the South, whose identity is torn between the Old and the New Order.

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Strings of Life: Memory as Myth in Porter’s Miranda Stories

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