Aesha Nananso

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.