FEAST CONSUMING CHILDREN
For Consuming Children FEAST is working with Sarah Hardstaff
and Dawn Sardella-Ayres from the Children’s Literature Research
Centre at Cambridge University to guest edit a section of the journal
exploring the relationship between children, food and literature.
Alongside the literary focus FEAST will publish interviews, artist’s
works, and videos that creatively explore the relationships between
children, food and consumption.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
ACADEMIC PAPERS &
CREATIVE WRITING
Food is a powerful and versatile force in children’s literature, standing
in for familial love, sexual relationships, deprivation and excess,
denial, shame and control. For Consuming Children, FEAST is
seeking academic papers and creative writing that explore the use
of food and its significance in Children’s Literature. The editors are
particularly interested in pieces that examine the tension between
children as consumers and children as consumables, recognising
that the figure of the child can perform as both actor and goal in
food-related transactions.
Taking the broadest possible definition of children’s literature/culture,
they are particularly interested in papers that respond to social issues
encouraging articles and creative writing on topics such as (but not
limited to):
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• Empirical or archival research presenting
children’s perspectives on food
• Children as consumers of food
• The relationship between food and the
commodification of children/childhood
• Representations of disordered eating
in children’s literature/culture
• Representations of food (in)security and
inequality in children’s literature/culture
• Representations of children’s control
or lack of control over consumption
• Food as reward/denial of food; issues of
childhood and food as pleasure/punishment
• Illustrations and other visual representations
of food in children’s books
• Academic papers should be accessible to
a wide audience, and around 4000-6000
words in length.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
6PM 12TH MARCH 2018
For full academic articles of 5000–6000 words or pieces of creative
writing of up to 3000 words.
Further details on how to submit works for consideration can be
found on the journal website http://feastjournal.co.uk
ABOUT THE JOURNAL:
F EAST combines articles on contemporary arts practices with
recipes, food histories and literary narratives in an eclectic mix that
serves to explore, highlight and question the varied roles food and
its associated practices hold within our everyday.
For further information regarding academic submissions please
contact Sarah Hardstaff (sflh2@cam.ac.uk);
For further information regarding creative writing submissions
please contact: info@feastjournal.co.uk
info@feastjournal.co.uk