Ali Salami

Migration as Method, Death as Border: Necropolitics and Speculative Cosmopolitanism in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

This article’s distinct intervention is to theorize Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West as practicing speculative cosmopolitanism: a narrative method that couples the “autonomy of migration” with informal, care-based affiliations beyond the nation-state. Through a triangulated reading that brings together border-as-method, necrop...