Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers

by Tammy Powley (Editor), April Van Camp (Editor)

Overview

Florida as symbol and myth is the subject of this collection of new critical essays exploring fiction written by female Floridian authors. In the words of author Karen Russell, the Sunshine State is "virtually past-less, seasons are out of the question, and it's built on a primordial park full of monsters." Discussing the state as setting, the essayists--also Floridians--suggest that it is a creation of the stories told about it. Each of the book's 12 chapters covers one author, including a brief biography followed by one (and twice, two) essays on some of the author's works. The book's final section includes interviews with authors Lynne Barrett, Jeannine Capo Cruz, Vicki Hendricks and Angela Hunt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476618227
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	12/03/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	535 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tammy Powley is an associate professor of English and teaches composition and technical communications at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida. She lives in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. April Van Camp is a professor of English at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida, where she teaches composition and literature. She lives in Fort Pierce.
Tammy Powley is an associate professor of English and teaches composition and technical communications at Indian River State College in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Her publications consist of academic works as well as commercial "how-to" books and articles for digital media companies. She lives in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
April Van Camp is a professor of English at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida, where she teaches composition and literature. She lives in Fort Pierce.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface (Tammy Powley)
Introduction (April Van Camp)
1. Karen Russell
• Gators, Goggles and Giant Shells: Fantasy and Florida in the Short Stories (Tammy Powley)
• Into the Swamp: An Examination of Folk Narrative Structures and Storylines in Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! (Lori Cornelius)
2. Elizabeth ­Stuckey-French
• A Laughing Matter: Smiling Through the Pain in Elizabeth ­Stuckey-French’s Novels (April Van Camp)
3. Lynne Barrett
• ’Canes, Critters and Criminals in Lynne Barrett’s Storytelling (Claudia S. Slate)
4. Jennine Capó Crucet
• On Haunted Shores: Restriction and Resistance in Jennine Capó Crucet’s How to Leave Hialeah (Camila Alvarez)
5. Connie May Fowler
• Cracker Redemption: Life, Death and Homecoming in The Problem with Murmur Lee (Jill C. Jones)
6. Janis Owen­s
• A Summer to Pardon: Southern Gothic and the Family in Janis Owens’s Myra Sims (Sarah M. Mallonee)
• American Ghosts and American Realities: Past and Present of Race Relations in Janis Owens’s American Ghost (Beate Rodewald)
7. Heidi Boehringer
• Walk on the Wild Side: Heidi Boehringer’s Fiction and a ­Post-Feminist Landscape (Maxine Lavon Montgomery)
8. Angela Hunt
• Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt (Tammy Powley)
• Angela Hunt’s Uncanny Florida (Lisa K. Perdigao)
9. Edna Buchanan
• Florida’s Femme Fatale (Wendy Dwyer)
10. Ana Menéndez
• Entrapment and Escape (Jane Anderson Jones)
11. Vicki Hendricks
• The Spectacle of the Body in Florida Gothic
Stories (Angela Tenga)
12. Mary Jane Ryals
• Racial Progress, Not Movement, Is Evident as the
Trees Slowly Walk in Mary Jane Ryals’s Cookie and Me (Valerie E. Kasper)
Appendix: Interviews (Lynne Barrett, Jennine Capó Crucet, Vicki Hendricks, Angela Hunt)
About the Contributors
Index