Abstract
Katherine Anne Porter was awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for her most important works The Collection of Short Stories which include 27 short stories, nine of which are Miranda stories consisting of Old Mortality, The Old Order and Pale Horse,Pale Rider. Miranda stories give an account of the life experience of three generations of females in Miranda family, including Miranda’s grandma, aunt Amy and Eva and Miranda herself. Combined with the background of Potter’s life and feminist movement in the United States, this paper analyzed the existence status and the images of female characters in Miranda family, and explored the process of female consciousness, which will help comprehensively understand Potter’s works and her female’s awakening.
Highlights
This paper explores the feminist consciousness of Katherine Anne Porter through her Miranda stories
There are three typical female images exemplified by Sophia Jane, Aunt Amy and Eva, and Miranda, respectively representing different stance on female consciousness in the process of American feminist development
Carefully comparing Katherine Anne Porter‟s life experience and the history background with Miranda‟s stories, we may see that the fictions of Miranda stories were full of the shadow of Porter herself
Summary
Katherine Anne Porter is one of the most famous modern short fiction writers in America. Potter explored special and subtle meaning of life in those experiences, each work contains profound implication Her novels often concern serious subjects such as religion,politics,death,nature of evil, self-delusion, and the relation between man and woman.Miranda remains Porter's most popular protagonist, and the Miranda stories have been viewed as attempts by Porter to come to terms with the repressed Southern world of her childhood. Miranda stories consist of nine stories, including Old Mortality, and Pale Horse, Pale Rider and The Old Order, which were made up of the short stories, The Source, The Witness, The grave, The Last Leaf, The Fig Tree and The Grave These Miranda stories are closely rooted in Porter‟s personal experience from her childhood to her adulthood. Characters belong to different generations, who form a chorus of voices unanimous in their obsession with the past: Sophia Jane, Amy And Miranda form different attitudes to the identity as females in the patriarch southern family
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