Florida Studies Proceedings 2006
President
Steve Glassman
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Vice President
Keith Huneycutt
Florida Southern College
Secretary
William Wall
Santa Fe Community College
Treasurer
Rich McKee
Ringling School of Art and Design
Local Arrangements 2006
April Van Camp
Indian River Community College
CEA Liaison
Maurice O’Sullivan
Rollins College
Past President
Steve Brahlek
Palm Beach Community College
Webweaver
Manatee Community College: Venice
At-Large Board Members
Deborah Coxwell-Teague
Florida State University
Carole Policy
DeVry University: Orlando
Patricia Feito
Barry University
Florida Studies Proceedings
of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
Florida College English Association
Claudia Slate, General Editor
Florida Southern College
Steve Glassman, Executive Editor
Charles Smires, Florida Community College,Jacksonville,
FCEA President 1990-1991
Acknowledgements............................................................................................................ xi
Preface................................................................................................................................. xii
The Villain No More: Mechanics with Meaning in Writing
Programs Using APA Editorial Writing Style.................................................................. 3
E. Stone Shiflet
Re-Entry Crisis: One Non-Traditional Student’s Journey............................................. 9
Linda M. Campbell
Living the Life of the Dirty.............................................................................................. 17
Alison Watkins, with Jim Watkins
Old Florida
Atala: Le Premier Roman De Floride............................................................................. 27
Maurice J. O’Sullivan
Imagined Places and People in Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
and John Fleming.............................................................................................................. 35
Rosalie Murphy Baum
Of Stones and Students: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludd M. Spivey,.............................. 42
and the Folklore of Florida Southern College
Alexander M. Bruce
Cracker Culture In The Florida Novels Of Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings.............................................................................................................................. 55
Steve Brahlek
Elements of Southwestern Humor in The Yearling..................................................... 65
Gregory Byrd
Cracker Mythos: The Trickster Hero in Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings’s “Benny and the Bird Dogs”......................................................................... 71
Wendy Neeld
Strange Bedfellows............................................................................................................ 80
Nancy M. Shelton
Visions Of Heroes: Icons And Iconography In Florida
Small Town Murals........................................................................................................... 85
Matthew D. Mclendon
Decolonizing The Native Conch In Ernest Hemingway’s To
Have And Have Not: Harry Morgan As A Cautionary Tale
Against Tourism................................................................................................................. 91
Adam Pridemore
Judging Mr. Watson: Matthiessen’s Bone By Bone And
Henry Flagler.................................................................................................................... 101
Keith Huneycutt
Librarian Heroes In Literature And Real Life............................................................ 108
Salena Coller
In Search of Her Mother's Garden: Connie May Fowler's
Reclamation of the Past in River of Hidden Dreams................................................ 124
Laura S. Head
“The Planet Survives . . . Through Heroism”: Florida As The
New World In Russell Banks’s Continental Drift..................................................... 129
Andrea Dimino
Davidson and Goliath: Fair Value for Florida’s Family-Owned
Newspaper........................................................................................................................ 150
Stephen Zeigler
A Passion For Paradise: A Florida Immigrant Reads Archie Carr.......................... 175
Holly Genzen
Two Bills, Two Centuries: The Literary Vision of Two Florida
Naturalist-Writers............................................................................................................ 180
John E. Stewart
Hurricane Madness: A Survey of Hurricanes in Florida Novels............................. 188
Jane Anderson Jones
Behind Our Memories, Our Larger Families Wait..................................................... 203
Michael Hettich
The Father........................................................................................................................ 207
Michael Hettich
Going Swimming............................................................................................................. 209
Lizabeth Keiley
Lovers Converse.............................................................................................................. 210
Lizabeth Keiley
The Moon Speaks........................................................................................................... 211
Lizabeth Keiley
Flight ................................................................................................................................. 212
Lizabeth Keiley
In The Beginning: A Great-Great Horse Thief Who Was
Fleet of Foot..................................................................................................................... 213
Margaret Mishoe