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