About
Dr. Mansour’s research looks into how contemporary neo-slave narratives reimagine and re-adapt the antebellum past by means of the fantastic. She primarily focuses on politics of representation and revisionist history through a Black feminist lens and raise questions about intergenerational trauma, historical archives, memory, and the body. Beyond her interest in African American literature, she is curious about West African cosmologies in post-1960s African American fiction. Dr. Mansour is currently working on a monograph based on her PhD dissertation, Our Diabolic Dye: Revisiting Female Experience in Contemporary Neo-Slave Narratives - Sankofarrating Trauma through the Fantastic.
Research Areas
20-21st Century African American Literature; Slave Narratives; Speculative Fiction; CRF; Afrofuturism; Neo-Slave Narratives