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    Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media

    Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media by Planka, Sabine; Löwe, Corina;

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 24 April 2025

    • ISBN 9781032943022
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages230 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 590 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black & white; 2 Line drawings, black & white; 5 Tables, black & white
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    Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media creates a kaleidoscope of the various functions of sweets and their significance for children?s culture, thus providing an overview of the diversity of the subject.

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    Our language is full of 'sweet' terms to describe situations (?a bittersweet moment?), things (?popcorn brain?), behaviour (?to have a sweet tooth?), or even loved ones (?sweety?, ?sweetheart?, ?honey?) that are originally not linked to food. What seems to be common to almost all cultures, is reflected in the fact that we humans are born with a taste for sweets, and that sweets have shaped our cultures and our language. This has also been reflected in children's literature and media. This is the starting point for this invaluable collection of essays, which deals specifically with sweets and the spectrum of hedonistic and regulated indulgence in different cultures and media for children. The contributions analyse classics of children?s literature, but also more recent texts and other media such as magazines, films, television programmes and computer games. Cultural Perspectives on Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media creates a kaleidoscope of the various functions of sweets and their significance for children?s culture, thus providing an overview of the diversity of the subject.

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    Table of Contents:


    List of Illustrations
    Notes on Contributors


    Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media: A Short Introduction into a Sweet and Delicious Topic
    CORINA LÖWE AND SABINE PLANKA


    PART I
    Sweets as an Expression of Culture and Cultural Attitudes as well as National Cuisines


    1 Sugar ? A Substance Between Health, Temptation, and Moral in German Dolls? and Children?s Cookbooks from the 19th to 21st Century
    SABINE PLANKA


    2 ?A Cookie Is a Sometime Food?. Cookie Monster and the Politics of Children?s Health on Sesame Street ABBY WHITAKER


    3 Sugar Magic: Australian Children?s Literature, Sweets, and National Identity
    PAUL VENZO


    4 ?We Do All This to Celebrate the Beauty of Life and Death Rather than Mourn It?: Sugary Skulls, Pan de Muerto, and the Context of Mexican Dia de Muertos in Children?s Books
    SABINE PLANKA


    5 Sweet Treats and Cultural Commentary in Studio Ghibli?s Kiki?s Delivery Service (1989) and Spirited Away (2001)
    NERMIN KARADEMIR


    PART II
    Sweets as Key Moments for the Development of Characters and Interpersonal Relationships in Children?s Media


    6 Swallowed Tears and Ice Cream: Sweets and the Lonely Child in East German Children?s Literature
    CORINA LÖWE


    7 The Emancipatory Milkshake: Sweets in a Swedish Girls? Magazine
    KRISTINA ÖHMAN


    8 ?Blond, Pink, and Porky?: The Dehumanisation of


    Fat Characters Eating Sweets in British 20th-Century Children?s Book Classics
    ?SA WARNQVIST AND MIA ÖSTERLUND


    PART III


    Sweets in Children?s Literature and Media as Symbols and Metaphors


    9 Tailor-Made Pastries in La signorina Euforbia: Food Pedagogy in Italian Pre-Teens? Literature
    SIMONA DI MARTINO


    10 The Sweet Temptations of Fairy Tales: Exploring the Symbolic Role of Sweets
    ARTEMIS PAPAILIA


    11 ?These Creatures Are Not Just Delightful, They?re Delicious?: The Cultural Meaning of the Trolls as Sweets in DreamWorks? Trolls (2016)
    PHILIP VAN DER MERWE


    12 To Eat and/or Be Eaten: A Yummy Guide with Zombies Inside
    COREY WHITLEY, DANIEL IHRMARK, AND JOHAN NILSSON


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