Recording of Katherine Anne Porter in a Roundtable Discussion with the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Mexico City, Mexico, June 1, 1960, tape two of three

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Date
1960-06-01
Summary
Recording of Katherine Anne Porter in a Roundtable Discussion with the Centro Mexicano de Escritores on June 1, 1960. Porter completes reading her short story "The Fig Tree," pages 360-62 in Collected Stories. The second of three tapes. Porter comments briefly on her series of childhood stories. A female commentator discusses the story. Porter addresses the commentator's question about the roots of her fiction, specifically including that of "Maria Concepcion." A male commentator discusses the structure of "Old Mortality" and "Noon Wine" and begins a discussion of "Pale Horse, Pale Rider."
Contributor
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980
Subject
Literature, Print Culture
Locations
North America; United Mexican States
Collection
Literature
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Terms of Use
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Physical Description
7 in; 0:31:41 hh:mm:ss; 1/4" open reel tape
Notes
Katherine Anne Porter papers
Accession 66-5
A guide to the full collection of Katherine Anne Porter papers is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1532.

Access

Access condition: public.
Other Identifiers
Fedora 2 PID: umd:684000; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/33191; Catalog Key: KAP10.16.10.2; Filename: litmss-024930

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