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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Eve...
