Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature
Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature – National, International and Transnational Perspectives investigates how the child is positioned as the consumer/eater of cultural food. It also highlights some ingredients that are to be found on more than one national menu, so to speak. We interrogate what...
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| description | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature – National, International and Transnational Perspectives investigates how the child is positioned as the consumer/eater of cultural food. It also highlights some ingredients that are to be found on more than one national menu, so to speak. We interrogate what it means to serve a “cultural meal” to a young person, identifying the discourses that are inscribed in the recipe. By analyzing authorial or translational choices, the different chapters explore the thematic and ideological roots of the stories that authors, illustrators and translators offer their young readers. The essays in this collection are organized around three themes in children’s cultural and literary texts about food and eating. In the first section, the political dimensions of food narratives are explored. Food’s power to define “us” versus “them” is key to understanding food narratives in their national and political contexts. The second part is dedicated to inter/national and transnational nightmares, specifically narratives addressing the supreme threat lurking in young people’s literature: being eaten. Finally, the collection features a section on food fantasies in young people’s narratives, and addresses the disconcerting capability of food to transform, translate, transcend and become abundantly surreal, without ever losing the power to marvel and satiate, even when it conveys complex concepts and ideas. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1765002026-05-18T11:45:32Z Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature Gasperini, Anna Sundmark, Björn Tosi, Laura Childrens literature; Eating culture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature – National, International and Transnational Perspectives investigates how the child is positioned as the consumer/eater of cultural food. It also highlights some ingredients that are to be found on more than one national menu, so to speak. We interrogate what it means to serve a “cultural meal” to a young person, identifying the discourses that are inscribed in the recipe. By analyzing authorial or translational choices, the different chapters explore the thematic and ideological roots of the stories that authors, illustrators and translators offer their young readers. The essays in this collection are organized around three themes in children’s cultural and literary texts about food and eating. In the first section, the political dimensions of food narratives are explored. Food’s power to define “us” versus “them” is key to understanding food narratives in their national and political contexts. The second part is dedicated to inter/national and transnational nightmares, specifically narratives addressing the supreme threat lurking in young people’s literature: being eaten. Finally, the collection features a section on food fantasies in young people’s narratives, and addresses the disconcerting capability of food to transform, translate, transcend and become abundantly surreal, without ever losing the power to marvel and satiate, even when it conveys complex concepts and ideas. Published 2026-05-18T11:45:30Z 2026-05-18T11:45:30Z 2024 book 978-91-7877-565-1 978-91-7877-564-4 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176500 eng Malmö University Studies in Children’s Literature, Culture and Media image/jpeg n/a https://a.co/d/2bh3Pyh https://books.mau.se/catalog/view/303/372/1933 Malmö University Press 10.24834/isbn.9789178775651 10.24834/isbn.9789178775651 d9c361ad-eb2e-431b-8cc1-980eced51e91 978-91-7877-565-1 978-91-7877-564-4 219 open access |
| spellingShingle | Childrens literature; Eating culture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title_full | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title_fullStr | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title_short | Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature |
| title_sort | eating cultures in children s literature |
| topic | Childrens literature; Eating culture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |
| topic_facet | Childrens literature; Eating culture thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSY Children’s and teenage literature studies: general |
| url | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176500 |