Aesha Nananso

Aesha Nananso

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Aesha
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Nananso
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PhD Candidate
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My doctoral work investigates how Black women writers of the American neo-slave narrative who return to and recuperate history also recast motherhood in non-normative ways. Besides offering the appropriate context in which to understand radical Black mothering practices, I contend that the neo-slave narrative as a literary form provides necessary methods for studying slavery and its afterlives in the contemporary moment, especially as it pertains to the lesser-known experiences of enslaved women.

List of Publications

  • Book Review: Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 91, no. 3, 2022, pp 284-286.

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  • Maternal Theory
  • Black Studies
  • Popular Culture

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