| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 Introduction: Food in Children's Literature -- part Part II Reading as Cooking -- chapter 2 Delicious Supplements: Literary Cookbooks as Additives to Children's Texts -- part Part III Girls, Mothers, Children -- chapter 3 Recipe for Reciprocity and Repression: The Politics of Cooking and Consumption in Girls' Coming-of-Age Literature -- chapter 4 The Apple of Her Eye: The Mothering Ideology Fed by Best-selling Trade Picture Books -- part Part IV Food and the Body -- chapter 5 Nancy Drew and the "F" Word -- chapter 6 To Eat and Be Eaten in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature -- chapter 7 "Voracious Appetites": The Construction of "Fatness" in the Boy Hero in English Children's Literature -- part Part V Global/Multicultural/Postcolonial Food -- chapter 8 "The Eaters of Everything": Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling's Narratives of Imperial Boys -- chapter 9 Eating Different, Looking Different: Food in Asian American Childhood -- chapter 10 The Potato Eaters: Food Collection in Irish Famine Literature for Children -- chapter 11 The Keys to the Kitchen: Cooking and Latina Power in Latin(o) American Children's Stories -- chapter 12 Sugar or Spice? The Flavor of Gender Self-Identity in an Example of Brazilian Children's Literature -- part Part VI Through Food the/a Self -- chapter 13 Oranges of Paradise: The Orange as Symbol of Escape and Loss in Children's Literature -- chapter 4 teen Trials of Taste: Ideological "Food Fights" in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time -- chapter 15 A Consuming Tradition: Candy and Socio-religious Identity Formation in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- chapter 6 teen Prevailing Culinary, Psychological, and Metaphysical Conditions: Meatballs and Reality -- chapter 17 "The Attack of the Inedible Hunk!": Food, Language, and Power in the Captain Underpants Series |
| Summary |
"This book is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental node for understanding history, the essays in this volume present food as a multivalent signifier in children's literature, and make a strong argument for its central place in literature and literary theory." "Written by some of the most respected scholars in the field, the essays between these covers tackle texts from the nineteenth century (Rudyard Kipling's Jam) to the contemporary (Dave Pllkey's Captain Underpants series), the U.S. multicultural (Asian-American) to the international (Ireland, Brazil, Mexico). Spanning genres such as picture books, chapter books, popular media, and children's cookbooks, contributors utilize a variety of approaches, including archival research, cultural studies, formalism, gender studies, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, race studies, structuralism, and theology. Innovative and wide-ranging, this book provides us with a critical opportunity to puzzle out the significance of food in children's literature."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- History and criticism
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Food in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Children's literature
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Food in literature
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Ess- und Trinksitte Motiv
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Kinderliteratur
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Lebensmittel Motiv
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Kochen Motiv
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Barn- och ungdomslitteratur -- historia.
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Mat i litteraturen.
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Mat i litteraturen.
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Kokböcker.
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Philadelphia <Pa., 2004>
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keeling, Kara K.
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Pollard, Scott T.
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| ISBN |
9780203888919 |
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020388891X |
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