Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Keeling, Kara K.; Pollard, Scott T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first scholarly volume to connect children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Spanning genres and regions, the essays utilize a variety of approaches, including archival research, cultural studies, formalism, gender studies, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, race studies, structuralism, and theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135893019
• Artikelnr.: 42983853

Autorenporträt

Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard have published articles on food and children's literature in Children's Literature in Education and Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100. They are working on their own book-length study of the topic. Both teach in the English Department at Christopher Newport University, Keeling specializing in children's and young adult literature, and Pollard in world literature and critical theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. Introduction
Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard
Part II. Reading as Cooking
2. Delicious Supplements: Literary Cookbooks as Additives to Children's
Texts
Jodie Slothower and Jan Susina
Part III. Girls, Mothers, Children
3. Recipe for Reciprocity and Repression: The Politics of Cooking and
Consumption in Girls' Coming-of-Age Literature
Holly Blackford
4. The Apple of her Eye: The Mothering Ideology Fed by Bestselling Trade
Picture Books
Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Part IV. Food and the Body
5. Nancy Drew and the "F" Word
Leona W. Fisher
6. To Eat and Be Eaten in Nineteenth-century Children's Literature
Jacqueline M. Labbe
7. Voracious Appetites: The Construction of "Fatness" in the Boy Hero in
English Children's Literature
Jean Webb
Part V. Global/Multicultural/Post-colonial Food
8. "The Eaters of Everything": Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling's Narratives
of Imperial Boys
Winnie Chan
9. Eating Different, Looking Different: Food in the Asian-American
Childhood
Lan Dong
10. The Potato Eaters: Food Collection in Irish Famine Literature for
Children
Karen Hill McNamara
11. The Keys to the Kitchen: Cooking and Latina Power in Latin(o) American
Children's Stories
Genny Ballard
12. Sugar or Spice? The Flavor of Gender Self-Identity in an Example of
Brazilian Children's Literature
Richard Vernon
Part VI. Through Food the/a Self
13. Oranges of Paradise: The Orange as Symbol of Escape and Loss in
Children's Literature
James Everett
14. Trials of Taste: Ideological "Food Fights" in Madeleine L'Engle's A
Wrinkle in Time
Elizabeth Gargano
15. A Consuming Tradition: Candy and Socio-religious Identity Formation in
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Robert M. Kachur
16. Prevailing Culinary, Psychological, and Metaphysical Conditions:
Meatballs and Reality
Martha Satz
17. "The Attack of the Inedible Hunk!": Food, Language, and Power in the
Captain Underpants Series
Annette Wannamaker
Contributors
Index