ABSTRACT

In Indian School Days, Basil Johnston remembers eating watery porridge – ‘sad ol’ mush’ – at St. Peter Claver School for Boys. A collaboration between the Canadian government and Christian churches to assimilate Indigenous children, residential schools served food that aligned with this mission. Zooming in on the history of the poetics and politics of porridge, this article weaves together a study of the food residential schools served with writing by survivors and from the genre of children’s literature. It asks: How does breakfast connect to larger conflicts over land and power? And what role does children’s culture play in this?

中文翻译：

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'Sad ol' mush'：加拿大寄宿学校粥的诗学和政治

摘要

在印度学生时代，巴兹尔约翰斯顿记得在圣彼得克拉弗男校吃过稀粥——“悲伤的糊状物”。加拿大政府和基督教会合作吸收土著儿童，寄宿学校提供符合这一使命的食物。本文聚焦粥的诗学和政治的历史，将幸存者写作的食物寄宿学校和儿童文学体裁的研究结合在一起。它问：早餐如何与土地和权力的更大冲突联系起来？儿童文化在其中扮演什么角色？