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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.
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.
Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign
of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance.
Many academic disciplines - from sociology to literary studies -
have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse,
and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides
multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and
uses of food in all types of media, including children's
literature.Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature is a survey
of food's function in children's texts, showing how the
sociocultural contexts of food reveal children's agency. Authors
Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from
historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and
Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of
genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks,
picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands
offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of
texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children's
literature, Keeling and Pollard's analysis covers a selection of
texts that show the omnipresence of food in children's literature
and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region,
and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore,
they include not only classic children's books, such as
Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as
well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar's Ratatouille.
Food is a signifier of power for both adults and children, a sign
of both inclusion and exclusion and of conformity and resistance.
Many academic disciplines - from sociology to literary studies -
have studied food and its function as a complex social discourse,
and the wide variety of approaches to the topic provides
multidisciplinary frames for understanding the construction and
uses of food in all types of media, including children's
literature.Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature is a survey
of food's function in children's texts, showing how the
sociocultural contexts of food reveal children's agency. Authors
Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard examine texts that vary from
historical to contemporary, noncanonical to classics, and
Anglo-American to multicultural traditions, including a variety of
genres, formats, and audiences: realism, fantasy, cookbooks,
picture books, chapter books, YA novels, and film. Table Lands
offers a unified approach to studying food in a wide variety of
texts for children. Spanning nearly 150 years of children's
literature, Keeling and Pollard's analysis covers a selection of
texts that show the omnipresence of food in children's literature
and culture and how they vary in representations of race, region,
and class, due to the impact of these issues on food. Furthermore,
they include not only classic children's books, such as
Winnie-the-Pooh, but recent award-winning multicultural novels as
well as cookbooks and even one film, Pixar's Ratatouille.
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