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- ISBN 9781496828347
- Weight: 475g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kara K. Keeling is professor of English and the Dr. Tracey Schwarze Endowed Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities at Christopher Newport University. She is coauthor of Discovering a Voice: Engaging Adolescent Girls with Young Adult Literature.
