Flowering Judas (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Values, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Revolutions, Marriage, Religion, Alienation, Guilt, 1920’s, Adultery, Ethics, Theft, Mexico or Mexicans, Loneliness, Impostors or imposture
- Locales: Mexico
Form and Content
Flowering Judas and Other Stories, Katherine Anne Porter’s first collection of short stories, includes among its twelve pieces several of her most significant works. As in all of her fiction, most of the protagonists are women. Writing out of her own experiences and memories shaped by imagination, Porter creates characters who confront and attempt to cope with a chaotic world. Caught in a world without a center, torn between an old order and a new, they often find themselves paralyzed, hopelessly alone in a modern wasteland.
Half of the stories,...
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