Published: 2020-12-31

“But why should everything be exactly as one is used to having it?”: Representation of Climate Change in the Moomin Series by Tove Jansson in View of Food Studies

Michał Czajkowski
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.598

Abstract

The aim of this article is to speculate on how in her Moomin series (1945–1970) Tove Jansson presents the climate change occurring in her fictional world through the catastrophic scenes and those suggesting that a more long-term process is involved in shaping the narrative. The author of the paper argues that the amount, quality, and diversity of available food become a “language” which allows talking about the phenomenon from beyond the characters’ everyday experience. The family’s fates are thus positioned in a wider context, and the uncunny is shown through nutrition habits, which perform an important role in Moomins’ lives. Jansson using a family saga form shows how the narration about climate change as a process,
not particular events, can be created.

Keywords:

ecocriticism, children’s and young adult literature, Moomins, food studies, Tove Jansson, climate change

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Czajkowski, M. (2020). “But why should everything be exactly as one is used to having it?”: Representation of Climate Change in the Moomin Series by Tove Jansson in View of Food Studies. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 2(2), 93–112. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.598

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