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MidAmerica XXXIX The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature DAVID D. ANDERSON, FOUNDING EDITOR MARCIA NOE, EDITOR The Midwestern Press The Center for the Study of Midwestern Literature and Culture Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1033 2012 Copyright 2012 by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this work may be reproduced without permission of the publisher MidAmerica 2012 (0190-2911) is a peer-reviewed journal that is published annually by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. This journal is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MIDWESTERN LITERATURE http://www.ssml.org/home EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Marcia Noe, Editor, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Marilyn Judith Atlas Ohio University William Barillas University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Robert Beasecker Grand Valley State University Roger Bresnahan Michigan State University Robert Dunne Central Connecticut State University Scott D. Emmert University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley Philip Greasley University of Kentucky Sara Kosiba Troy University Nancy McKinney Illinois State University Mary DeJong Obuchowski Central Michigan University Ronald Primeau Central Michigan University James Seaton Michigan State University Jeffrey Swenson Hiram College EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Kaitlin Cottle Gale Mauk Rachel Davis Jeffrey Melnik Laura Duncan Heather Palmer Christina Gaines Mollee Shannon Blake Harris Meghann Tarry Michael Jaynes MidAmerica, a peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, is published annually. We welcome scholarly contri- butions from our members on any aspect of Midwestern literature and cul- ture. Except for winners of our annual poetry and prose contests, we do not publish poems, short stories, or creative nonfiction. If you would like to sub- mit a scholarly essay of not more than 15 pages or 3,750 words to be consid- ered for publication in MidAmerica, please send a hard copy of your essay to Marcia Noe, 535 Elinor Street, Chattanooga, TN 37405. If your essay is selected for publication, you will then send your manuscript by electronic attachment to [email protected] after making any required and/or desired changes. Please follow the most recent edition of the MLAHandbook. In doc- umenting sources, use parenthetical citations within your essay and a list of works cited. If you include discursive notes, they should be endnotes that use Arabic, not Roman, numerals. Use no headers, footers, or page numbers. Do not put your name on your essary. Include your contact information in your cover letter to Marcia. Be sure to give your institutional affiliation. In honor of David Radavich PREFACE On May 10, 2012, members of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature gathered in East Lansing for its forty-second annual meeting. Highlights included panels on Midwestern literary naturalism, the poetry of Ted Kooser, and the literature of contem- porary Detroit. Christian P. Knoeller received the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, David B. Schock won the Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose, and Scott Michael Atkinson was the winner of the David Diamond Student Writing Prize. David Radavich received the MidAmerica Award, and Mark Twain Award winner Sandra Seaton staged a reading of her play, Estate Sale. A memorial session was held for SSML founder David D. Anderson, who died on December 3, 2011. SSML is currently operating at a loss due to increased expenses in publishing its journals and convening its annual symposium. Major gifts from the late Jane S. Bakerman and David D. Anderson have enabled us to continue our work while we seek a more stable financial footing for the work ahead. SSML is also grateful to the fol- lowing members and friends who have made contributions in addi- tion to their dues. As more contributions are received, and earlier ones are discovered in the archives, we will add more names to this Honor Roll: Walter Adams, Robert Beasecker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ray B. Browne, Mary Ellen Caldwell, Louis J. Cantoni, G.B. Crump, David Diamond, Bernard F. Engel, Kenneth B. Grant, Philip A. Greasley, Theodore Haddin, Donald Hassler, Janet Ruth Heller, Ted Kennedy, Jean Laming, Barbara Lindquist, Larry Lockridge, Loren Logsdon, Bud Narveson, Marcia Noe, Mary Obuchowski, Tom Page, E. Elizabeth Raymond, Herbert K. Russell, James Seaton, Guy Szuberla, Doug Wixson, Melody Zajdel, and the family and friends of Paul Somers. CONTENTS Preface Recent Midwestern Literature and Poetry 8 SSML Conference and Awards 9 Georgia Plates Mary Minock The Gwendolyn Brooks Prize Poem 10 The Freedom to Try: Voltairine de Cleyre in Postmodern Pedagogy The David Diamond Student Writing Prize Michelle M. Campbell 13 Midwestern Mysticism: The Place of Religion in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Alex Engebretson The David D. Anderson Prize for Literary Criticism 24 Fishing in Time’s Stream: A Review Essay Marcia Noe 36 Ecocritical Perspectives on Wright Morris Rodney P. Rice 42 Hemingway’s Early Stories and Sketches Charles J. Nolan Jr. 54 Kingsblood Royal’s Grand Republic: Sundown Town? Edward Dauterich 65 “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”: Agricultural Horror Films and the American Farm Crisis of the 1980s Patricia Oman 82 Jokes, Insults, and Chicago’s Fight for the World’s Fair of 1893 Guy Szuberla 100 Remaking Men: Masculinity in the Poetry of Mark Halliday and Rodney Jones Kevin Oberlin 118 Bearing Witness: Ecological Memory in the Essays of Scott Russell Sanders Christian Knoeller 135 Annual Bibliography of Midwestern Literature 2010 Robert Beasecker 145 Recipients of the Mark Twain Award 211 Recipients of the MidAmerica Award Back Cover 8 MIDAMERICA XXXIX RECENT MIDWESTERN LITERATURE AND POETRY FICTION Airgood, Ellen. South of Superior. Riverhead Books, 2011. [Michigan] Attenberg, Jamie. The Middlesteins. Grand Central, 2012. [Chicagoland] Baker, Ellen. I Gave My Heart to Know This. Random House, 2011. [Wisconsin] Beard, Jo Ann. In Zanesville. Little, Brown, 2011. [Illinois] Berg, Elizabeth. Tapestry of Fortunes. Random House, 2013. [Minnesota] Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Once Upon a River. Norton, 2011. [Michigan] Coake, Christopher. You Came Back. Grand Central, 2012. [Ohio] Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Marriage Plot. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. [Michigan] Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. [Minnesota] Gass, William H. Middle C. Knopf, 2013. [Ohio] Harbach, Chad. The Art of Fielding. Little, Brown, 2011. [Wisconsin] Harrison, Jim. The River Swimmer. Grove, 2013. [Michigan] Kasischke, Laura. The Raising. Harper Perennial, 2011. [Michigan] Keillor, Garrison. Pilgrims. Penguin, 2010. [Minnesota] Lasser, Scott. Say Nice Things about Detroit. Norton, 2012. [Michigan] Moore, Edward Kelsey. The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. Knopf, 2013 [Indiana] Rhodes, David. Jewelweed. Milkweed, 2013. [Wisconsin] Riekke, Ron. The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works. Wayne State UP, 2013 [Michigan] Roy, Lori. Until She Comes Home. Dutton, 2013 [Detroit] Somerville, Patrick. This Bright River. Little, Brown, 2012. [Wisconsin] Thompson, Jean. The Year We Left Home. Simon & Schuster, 2011. [Iowa] Vivian, Robert. Another Burning Kingdom. U of Nebraska, 2011. [Nebraska] POETRY Davis, Todd. The Least of These. Michigan State UP, 2010. Heller, Janet Ruth. Folk Concert: Changing Times. Anaphora 2012. Kloefkorn, William. Swallowing the Soap. U of Nebraska , 2010. Knoepfle, John. Shadows and Starlight. Indian Paintbrush Poets, 2012 Radavich, David. The Countries We Live In. Main Street Rag Publishing, 2013. Stillwell, Mary K. Fallen Angels. Finishing Line, 2013. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature congratulates Robert Dunne Winner of the 2014 MidAmerica Award for distinguished contributions to the study of Midwestern literature and Naomi Long Madgett Winner of the 2014 Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature These awards will be presented at noon on May 9th 2014 at the Society’s 44th annual meeting, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, May 8-10, 2014. For registration information, go to the “annual symposium” link at ssml.org Call for papers for a panel on Fashion in Midwestern Literature and Culture for the 2014 SSML symposium in May of 2014 and for pos- sible publication in a fashion issue of Midwestern Miscellany: papers on fiction, film, drama, poetry, texts of any kind, and/or authors that deal with fashion in Midwestern literature and culture. Contact [email protected] with questions or ideas; send brief proposals for the 2014 Fashion in Midwestern Literature and Culture panel to Marcia Noe at the above email address or to 535 Elinor Street Chattanooga TN 37405 by January 15, 2014. Feel free to contact Marcia by phone at (423) 266-9316 if you want to discuss an idea for a paper. 9 GEORGIA PLATES MARY MINOCK Nobody thought much about it when he first pulled up parked his jalopy in the shade on the park side right in front of the lagoon. One more good-old-boy good old car with Georgia plates— just what you’d expect in the spring of 1956 with all the plants hiring. Nobody that I knew started keeping track until the car kept coming back to the same spot right across the street, where from our upstairs flat, and with its squared-off windows, we could get a real good view. That’s when we noticed the young man sitting in the driver’s seat— noticed he just sat there, and noticed that at certain times he got out of the car, a tall red-faced neatly dressed young Georgia man, and walked up the street toward Vernor Highway maybe heading to the bars, but from the look of him, his mildness, more likely to one of those joints up there that featured Southern down-home cooking. And pretty soon we started watching him— his comings and goings— 10 Georgia Plates 11 how he didn’t move the car now, got out and left in the early morning, crossed over to the YMCA up the block, came back with a shave and damp slicked-back hair, how he sat in the car, left for lunch, came back, and then left for a long time just before the changing of the afternoon shift.
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  • Gene Stratton-Porter

    Gene Stratton-Porter

    A Magazine Exploring Indiana History IndianaThe Historian “My seven-passenger automobile I transformed into a dray. A big, ten-bushel store box filled the tonneau. There were long boxes for each of the running boards and frequently I threw coffee sacking over the engine hood and loaded it with swamp mosses and bulbous plants, with pitcher plant and rosemary, as high as I could stack it and allow space for the driver to see over” (Tales You Won’t Believe, 175). Gene Stratton-Porter Gene Stratton-Porter was a She wanted to be indepen- woman of contrasts, contradic- dent—intellectually and physi- Focus tions, and strong emotions. Living cally—and determined that writ- at a time when women generally ing was the means to assure both. stayed at home, she was a self- Essential to that independence A note on names trained writer, naturalist, and was her relationship to the natu- Gene Stratton-Porter was born photographer. She wrote to her ral settings where she lived. She Geneva Grace Stratton. She pub- future husband strongly con- also had a strong desire to instill lished as Gene Stratton-Porter, but demning confining marriages, yet her love of nature in others in she referred to herself, and was most expressed pride in her family order to improve their lives and frequently referred to, as Mrs. Por- ter. We use Gene Stratton-Porter roles and later provided for her preserve the natural world. and Mrs. Porter in our text. We use extended family. She became very This issue of The Indiana Gene in the timeline.