Let's hear it : stories by Texas women writers / edited by Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grider, Sylvia Ann.

Rodenberger, Lou Halsell.

Series:

Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 16.

Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; no. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--Texas.

Short stories, American.

American fiction--Women authors.

Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Texas.

Manners and customs.

Short stories, American--Women authors.

Women--Texas--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

x, 422 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Imagination and memory abound in this marvelous collection of twenty-two stories by Texas women. In these stories readers will encounter the magical moment when a dying grandmother teaches Sue Ellen to dance; the red shoes Tammy the Tupperware Princess dons in New Orleans; the yellow thread needed to put Sue Tidwell's quilt together; and weekends of escape and sisterhood spent in El Paso's McCoy Hotel. The stories chosen here -- introduced and placed in their historical and literary context by editors Sylvia Ann Grider and Lou Halsell Rodenberger -- together weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State. From 1865, when a prescient science fiction work was serialized in the Galveston newspaper, until the present, women have written of a different Texas than the stereotypical Wild West of men's writing. Beverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter, Joyce Gibson Roach, and others have told a range of stories that capture the diverse circumstances, feelings, and experiences Texas women have known and lived. As Susan Ford Wiltshire writes in "The Quilt," "any grief was bearable if you could tell a story about it or make a story out of it." Texas women have borne grief and laughter, hope and memory by telling a story. Let's hear their stories now.

Contents:

Texas Women Writers and the Short Story II

Part I Civil War to Turn-of-the-Century

"An Afternoon's Nap, or: Five Hundred Years Ahead" (1865) / Aurelia Hadley Mohl 49

"A Thanksgiving Story" (1892) / Belle Hunt Shortridge 73

"An Elephant's Track" (1897) / Mollie E. Moore Davis 83

"The Last Hunt of Dorax" (1901) / Olive Huck 98

Part II 1920s-1950s

"The Drought" (1920) / Dorothy Scarborough 115

"Luck" (1930) / Winifred Sanford 135

"The Circus" (1935) / Katherine Anne Porter 154

"Uncle Edgar and the Reluctant Saint" (1944) / Margaret Cousins 165

"The Voyager" (1950) / Loula Grace Erdman 183

Part III 1960s-1980s

"Against the Moon" (1961) / Jane Gilmore Rushing 197

"If You're Not Going to Stay Then Please Don't Bother to Come" (1981) / Beverly Lowry 214

"Cowboy Movie" (1983) / Carolyn Osborn 231

"Once Again on All Souls" (1985) / Laverne Harrell Clark 248

"Helens and Roses" (1988) / Annette Sanford 275

Part IV 1990s

"Just As I Am" (1990) / Joyce Gibson Roach 293

"The Ladies' Room" (1990) / Sunny Nash 311

"The McCoy Hotel" (1992) / Denise Chavez 323

"The Quilt" (1996) / Susan Ford Wiltshire 341

"Let's Hear It for the Red Shoes" (1996) / Betty Wiesepape 349

"Sue Ellen Learns to Dance" (1997) / Judy Alter 361

"The Halloween Alps Boys" (1998) / Jan Epton Seale 374

"Moving On" (1998) / Jill Patterson 388.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-408) and index.

ISBN:

158544278X

1585442933

OCLC:

51905754