Ashna Ali

Biographic Data

ID6684491
NAMEAshna Ali
GIVEN NAMESAshna
FAMILY NAMEAli
SIGNATUREALI A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • The Transits and Transactions of Migritude in Bay Mademba’s Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope)

    Eleanor Paynter, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    Migritude literature, or the literature of postcolonial migration, is often autobiographical and thus productively read through the lens of life writing. How authors position the immigrant self as subject sheds light on narrative possibilities and their potential impact on readers in contexts where racist, anti-immigrant discourses dominate. This article explores the scope and stakes of migritude life writing through the example of Il mio viaggio…

  • Femme Migritude

    Vanita Reddy, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which …

  • Mobility in the City

    Yumna Siddiqi, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    In his novels Cockroach and Carnival, Rawi Hage explores the varied experiences of postcolonial migrants to the northern city. His protagonists are antiheroes, hustlers who reject the demands of good immigrant citizenship. Theorists of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrant…

  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement

    Shailja Patel, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    Research Article| May 01 2020 What We Talk about When We Talk about Movement Shailja Patel Shailja Patel Shailja Patel is author of Migritude (2010). She received the 2018 Brittle Paper Anniversary Award for “On Postcolonial Theory” and was 2019 keynote speaker for the “Journal of Narrative Theory Dialogue” at Eastern Michigan University. She is a 2019–20 research associate at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Amherst, Massachu…

  • Activist by Default

    Ashna Ali, Christopher Ian Foster et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of migration and their colonial histories. Scego discusses her resistance to the category of “migrant writer”…

  • Migritude and Kala Pani Routes in Shumona Sinha’s Assommons les pauvres (Let Us Strike Down the Poor)

    Brinda J Mehta, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    The term migritude was first coined by French theorist Jacques Chevrier to characterize “extracontinental” francophone sub-Saharan literatures that have their roots in negritude and immigration. Kenyan cultural artist Shailja Patel later expanded the term to include South Asian “migrants with attitude.” This article further expands the current framings of migritude by linking it to the historical movement of kala pani, or nineteenth-century India…

  • Migritude’s Progress

    Rosemary Haskell, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone of migritude,” as Lila Azam Zanganeh notably called her. Moving from the rich exegeses of the liminal, haunted, frequently abjected, migritude conditions of her fictional—and often autobiographical—heroines, Diome has now arriv…

  • Postface

    Ayo A Coly, Ashna Ali et al.ARTICLEMinnesota Review2020

    Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…

  • Ugly Affects

    Ashna AliARTICLEJournal of Narrative Theory2020Cited by: 1

    Ugly Affects:Migritude and Black Mediterranean Counternarratives of Migrant Subjectivity Ashna Ali (bio) In The Figure of the Migrant, Thomas Nail argues that dominant understandings of migrancy are narrated through a nation-state perspective that sees stasis as the normative human condition. Nail urges a reversal of this perspective toward a more realistic model that understands movement (rather than stasis) as the central driver of social expan…

  • Ambivalence and Security in the Anglo-American Empire

    R K Gairola, Ashna AliARTICLEJournal of Narrative Theory2017Cited by: 1References: 1

    We began this dialogue with Homi K. Bhabha accepting our invitation for an interview at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities at Harvard University on Friday, May 9, 2015. Bhabha is a theoretical pacesetter and rigorous scholar of Anglophone literature who requires little introduction. As the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, and the…