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Table Lands : Food in Children's Literature /

"An exploration of the symbolic role food plays in children's literature"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keeling, Kara K. (Author), Pollard, Scott T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An invitation to the table : the tastes of children's literature
  • American children's cookbooks as scenes of instruction : tracking historical shifts of work, play, pleasure, and memory
  • Puddings and pies : meat pastries in the tales of Beatrix Potter
  • "A little smackerel of something" : food and the Künstlerroman in the Winnie-the-Pooh books
  • Food of the woods and plains : two visions of food, culture, land, and history in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and Louise Erdrich's Birchbark series
  • "A profound love for luscious things" : food as symbolism and history in Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen
  • Dangerous angels : the Weetzie Bat books : food, place, and sparkly glam slinkster cool vegetarianism in Los Angeles
  • Ratatouille and restaurants : a portrait of the artist as a young rat
  • "Beating eggs never makes the evening news" : politics and kitchens in Rita Williams-García's One Crazy Summer and its sequels
  • Refugee narratives, cuisine clash : the case of Thanhha Lai's Inside Out & Back Again.