How does breakfast connect to larger conflicts over land and power? And what role does children’s culture play in this?
After having organized the conference Food and/in Children’s Culture: National, International and Transnational Perspectives, literary scholars Anna Gasperini and Laura Tossi have kept the conversation going by curating a special issue of Childhood in the Past. It is a pleasure to have been a part of this project and to have contributed the article “‘Sad Ol Mush’: The Poetics and Politics of Porridge in Residential Schools in Canada.”
My article has just been published. Browse and read the rest of the special issue “Childhood and Food: Literary-Historical Perspectives (c. 19-20th centuries) here.