Food Places in Children’s Literature analyses how food, place and social interactions are intertwined in children’s and young adult novels.
Food Places in Children’s Literature analyses how food, place and social interactions are intertwined in children’s and young adult novels. This book sets out to analyse a range of children’s books from across the 20th and 21st centuries, each of which relate to specific kinds of places, from the kitchen to the restaurant to the ad hoc picnic place, by using selected spatial theories, but also considering, for example, theories of communication. Examining how food is an object of material culture and shapes identities in a way similar to places, the book explores what happens when food and place meet and become intertwined within children’s narratives. This book is for scholars, academics, and postgraduate students in the arts and humanities with a special focus on children’s literature and media (literature, film and media studies) as well as academics and students with a special interest in food studies.
Mottos
Introduction
Chapter 1 (Mis-)Communication and (Mis-)Behaviour in Private and Public
Places: Kitchens and Restaurants as Places of Conflict and Care
Chapter 2 When Food becomes Torture: Eating Disorders in Private Kitchens and
(Semi-)Public Dining-Rooms
Chapter 3 Eating and Food Supply under Extreme Conditions: Food (Supply) and
Surveillance in Prison-Like Places
Chapter 4 Where Outsiders and Cool Kids Meet: The School Cafeteria as a Food
Place between Conflicts and Solidarity
Chapter 5 Places of the Ephemeral and the Enduring: Candy Factories,
Sweetshops and the Production, Creation and Incorporation of Culture,
Identity, and Memory
Chapter 6 Metropolises, Villages, No-mans-lands: Food Places and Food
Experiences in Urban and Rural Settings
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Sabine Planka, Dr. phil., works as an academic librarian at the Martin-Opitz-Library (Herne, Germany) in the field of public relations and event/project management, and as a visiting lecturer at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld, Germany) in the field of childrens literature. Her research particularly focuses on childrens literature, cookbook literature and literary food studies. She is also interested in aspects of space and gender theory as well as film studies. Latest publications include, for example, Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Childrens Literature and Media (2025, edited by Sabine Planka and Corina Löwe); What and How Will We Eat in Future? Food Culture, Food System, and Food Memory in Cli-fi Novels for Young Adults (2024, together with Corina Löwe), and Meet to Eat. The Restaurant as Narrative Setting in Terry Gilliams Brazil (1985) and The Fisher King (1991) in A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (2023) edited Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe, and Ian Bekker.
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