The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter

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INDEX 243 abortion, 78, 119 actress: Porter as 9, 187–90; woman as, 73, 49. See also gender identity: as performance Adam and Eve, 73 Adams, Leonie, 182 Adler, Cyrus, 36 adultery, 37, 39, 44, 149, 203 “Adventures of Hadji, The,” 11, 18, 36–39 Agrarian/Fugitive writers group, 6, 12, 178, 179, 193, 196; idealizations of, 189; Porter’s “heritage” inspired by, 183, 186–87; racial and sexual underpinnings of, 180–82, 184–85, 194–95; womanhood and, 190 Aguilera, Francisco, 120, 123 alienation, 34–35, 71, 80, 83, 110, 116. See also exile; homelessness Alvarez, Ruth, 9, 16, 24 ambition, women and, 33, 59, 94, 136, 143 ambivalence, 8; about family, 179; about female gender roles 20, 33, 43, 110; about maternal legacy, 85; as replaced by anger, 12 American Ballet Company, 168, 170 Andersen, Hans Christian, 58 anger and bitterness, 6, 12, 63, 132, 143, 157–58 “Anniversary in a Country Cemetery,” 78, 81–82, 85 anonymous tales, 28 Arabian Nights, The, 25 art, 1; as alternative to maternity, 22, 49, 94, 118, 147; female body as medium for, 19, 50, 52, 62, 65, 210; integrity in, 140, 211; modernist experimentation in, 157–158; Princess encased in, 15, 23, 154; as related to gender and identity , 8, 48, 85, 94, 108; as subversive, 25, 28, 116, 161; as vehicle for healing, 127 “Art of Katherine Mansfield, The,” 135 artists, female, 7, 9, 99, 132; as art objects , 20; assault and, 54; in the attic, 108–9; costume and, 19, 155, 161, 166, 188; as exploited, 139, 141; and foremothers , 69–71, 85; as independent, 49, 104, 116, 133, 140; love and, 129, 136; power and, 51, 67; as set apart, 27, 73; as visionary, 11, 24, 35, 94–95, 113. See also artists, female; monsters, women artists as artists, male, 11, 33, 24–25; as dangerous, 65, 67; female body and, 48; power of, 62; relations of, with female artists, 46, 210; women and, 63, 64, 66, 135 Asian tales, retold, 29, 36–39 244฀ ~฀ I N D E X Auden, W. H., 168–69 Auerbach, Nina, 28 authority: female, 28, 40; verbal, 36–39 autobiography: characters in Ship of Fools and, 200; fiction and, 180, 185– 86; fragments of, 74–78, 209; theory of, 182–83. See also Miranda; “Pull Dick—Pull Devil” Bakhtin, Mikhail, 8, 11, 97–98, 115. See also carnival Barker, Deborah, 7, 50 Barnes, Djuna, 161, 168 Basel, 77, 144 Baton Rouge, 168 Bayley, Isabel, 9 Berger, John, 51 Berlin, 144 Biala, Janice, 79 biological destiny, 17–18, 66 Bishop, John Peale, 189 Bloch, Howard, 19 Bloom, Harold, 188 body: bondage and, 54; control of, 44, 56, 58; as repository of life, 7, 67, 71, 149 Boone family history, 185 Borklund, Elmer, 171 Braidotti, Rosi, 7 Brinkmeyer, Robert, 8, 9, 105, 199 Brontë, Charlotte, 36 burial rites, 81, 87–88 Butler, Judith, 19, 155 Bynum, Caroline Walker, 93 camp, 12, 155, 171, 173, 175. See also costume carnival, 99, 105, 115. See also Bakhtin, Mikhail Carter, Nancy Corson, 84–85 Cather, Willa, 3, 20, 109, 133, 155–57 Catholicism, 42 chastity, female, 130. See also virginity childbirth: as giving legitimacy to women, 6, 14, 48, 122, 147; labor of, 69, 79, 120; as linked with death, 79, 87, 92, 124, 193; Porter’s experience with, 11, 121; stillbirth and, 11, 78, 121, 123, 152, 173. See also marriage, institution ; marriage, Porter’s childlessness, 1, 21, 127, 150–151 “Children of Xochitl,” 41, 42, 46 Christian Science Monitor, 41–42 Christian symbols, 57, 59, 93, 126 “Circus, The,” 204–5 Clark, Eleanor, 179 clothing. See costume Collected Stories, introduction to, 102 conservatism: Porter’s, 12, 132, 155–56, 187, 196; as shown in Ship of Fools, 199; and upbringing, 6, 103 costume: gender and, 12, 14, 17, 20, 154–56, 158–61, 166, 187–88; in Lynes’s photos, 170–77; as sexual defense, 23, 53; social control and, 18, 164; of Stein, 156; of women artists, 20, 188, 210. See also cross-dressing Cowley, Malcolm, 134, 135, 157, 187 “Cracked Looking Glass, The,” 12, 137, 146–151 Crane, Hart, 167 Creation (Rivera mural), 62 creativity: gender and, 3, 39, 40, 50, 112; romantic love and, 136. See also artists , female; childbirth cross-dressing, 5, 12, 166, 171. See also costume Damayanti and Nala, tale of, 29 Dana of the Druids, 41 dancer, 51, 52, 54 dancing, 67, 204; barefoot on broken glass, 58, 67 [3.147.104.248] Project MUSE (2024...