Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 10 - Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
from Part II - Developments
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Chapter 7 Visceral Encounters
- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Eating Together
- Chapter 9 Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing
- Chapter 10 Utilizing Food Studies with Children’s Literature and Its Scholarship
- Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Food Writing, Modernist Cuisine
- Chapter 12 Comic Books and the Culinary Logic of Late Capitalism
- Part III Applications
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
As texts for an exemplary analysis of children’s literature through the lens of food studies scholarship, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books demonstrate the overlooked but fundamental role that food can play in the ideological controversies current in American western frontier studies. Ideologically, Wilder agrees with Frederick Jackson Turner’s traditional view of western expansion as a predominantly white male arena; nonetheless her novels inherently complicate and challenge his monolithic view of settlement through her focus on women’s experiences on the frontier. Recent Wilder scholarship and contemporary new western history both deconstruct Turner’s views. Applying food studies scholarship, such as Montanari’s Food Is Culture, reveals how the innovation required to grow, gather, and prepare food on the frontier, as chronicled by Wilder, worked to transport and re-form cultural identity across the “wilderness” of the Great Plains as settlers learned they had to adapt foodways to their environment for physical and cultural survival.
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