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The Key Is in the Mouth: Food and Orality in Coraline
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 40, 2012
- pp. 1-27
- 10.1353/chl.2012.0015
- Article
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Coraline scholarship has focused on Lacanian readings of Coraline’s psychological development. This article shifts to the oral-sadistic and then, working with British foodways, explores how Coraline uses food to negotiate adult authority in the novel’s parallel worlds so that she can settle securely into the present moment of her childhood.