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基本説明
Spanning genres (picture books, popular media and cookbooks) and regions (the U.S., Britain, and Latin America), this cutting-edge book connects children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies.
Full Description
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature 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 Kim) to the contemporary (Dave Pilkey'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, Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature provides us with a critical opportunity to puzzle out the significance of food in children's literature.
Contents
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
