Student profiles
Brontë Crawford
Email: BRONTE.CRAWFORD@stu.mmu.ac.uk
Thesis Title
Institution
Supervisors
Dr Muzna Rahman
Dr Sarah Ilott
Research Summary
My research explores the role of food in contemporary literature, and how writers globally use gothic modes to explore the complex nature of food as an instrument of both perpetuating and resisting colonial power. In my thesis, I trace the presence of particular foods and consumables through contemporary novels and identify how these stories draw on the historic significance of these foods to articulate the complex and haunting legacies of colonial power and trade.
Research Interests
Food
Decolonial theory
Gothic literary modes
Materialism
Publications
WALKER, G. and CRAWFORD, B., 2024. Mahogany: a historical geography of a lasting commodity of 18th-century enslavement. In Geography [online]. Volume 109 (3). Pp. 163-168. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.239518 0.