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

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.

Keywords

• feminine voice of the south
• mythical past
• old order – new order
• reality-myth-”blind” memories
• southern belle