Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature

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. Delicious Supplements : Literary Cookbooks As Additives To Children's Texts -- Recipe For Reciprocity And Repression : The Politics Of Cooking And Consumption In Girls' Coming-of-age Literature -- The Apple Of Her Eye : The Mothering Ideology Fed By Best-selling Trade Picture Books -- Nancy Drew And The F Word -- To Eat And Be Eaten In Nineteenth-century Children's Literature -- Voracious Appetites : The Construction Of Fatness In The Boy Hero In English Children's Literature -- The Eaters Of Everything : Etiquettes Of Empire In Kipling's Narratives Of Imperial Boys -- Eating Different, Looking Different : Food In The Asian-american Childhood -- The Potato Eaters : Food Collection In Irish Famine Literature For Children -- The Keys To The Kitchen : Cooking And Latina Power In Latin(o) American Children's Stories -- Sugar Or Spice? The Flavor Of Gender Self-identity In An Example Of Brazilian Children's Literature -- Oranges Of Paradise : The Orange As Symbol Of Escape And Loss In Children's Literature -- Trials Of Taste : Ideological Food Fights In Madeleine L'engle's A Wrinkle In Time -- A Consuming Tradition : Candy And Socio-religious Identity Formation In Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory -- Prevailing Culinary, Psychological, And Metaphysical Conditions : Meatballs And Reality -- The Attack Of The Inedible Hunk! : Food, Language, And Power In The Captain Underpants Series. Edited By Kara K. Keeling And Scott T. Pollard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.