NeMLA CFP: Agricultural Imaginaries
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024 Boston, MA March 7-10, 2024
While the industrial food system has been lauded for positive changes to global diets, it has also resulted in remarkably uneven patterns of food scarcity and excess. As Mike Davis explains in Late Victorian Holocausts, “although crop failures and water shortages were of epic proportion—often the worst in centuries—there were almost always grain surpluses elsewhere in the nation or empire” (11). Rather than a condition of hunger amidst scarcity, in other words, the industrial ...