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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?
摘要：在印度学生时代，巴兹尔·约翰斯顿（Basil Johnston）记得在圣彼得·克拉弗男子学校（St.Peter Claver School for Boys）吃过水粥——“悲伤的糊状物”。加拿大政府和基督教会合作同化土著儿童，寄宿学校提供与这一使命相一致的食物。本文着眼于粥的诗学和政治史，从幸存者的写作和儿童文学的类型出发，对食物寄宿学校进行了研究。它问道：早餐与更大的土地和权力冲突有何联系？儿童文化在其中扮演了什么角色？
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Childhood in the Past provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of papers from any field of study which can further knowledge and understanding of the nature and experience of childhood in the past.
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