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Nov 9, 2021 · In this article, I propose that provenancial fabulation can be characterized through four dimensions: first, it plays with contradictory records contexts putting them in conversation with one another; second, it troubles the order and organization of the past; third, it extends the temporal and spatial boundaries of historical records and ...
- Jessica M. Lapp
- jessica.lapp@utoronto.ca
- 2021
May 24, 2016 · What Hartman seems to suggest here is the potential for a type of historical speculation or “critical fabulation” as she calls it — the assertion that in speculating about the inaccessible, silenced voices of the past, one might be able to “tell an impossible story” while simultaneously amplifying the “impossibility of its telling ...
- What Is “Critical Fabulation”?
- Other Applications of Critical Fabulation
- How Does Critical Fabulation Apply to Current Activism?
Critical fabulation, a scholarly-sounding term coined by the brilliant American writer Saidiya Hartman, refers to a style of creative semi-nonfiction that attempts to bring the suppressed voices of the past to the surface by means of hard research and scattered facts. The notion of critical fabulation originally appeared in Hartman’s essay, “Venus ...
While Hartman developed the essence of critical fabulation and uses the technique in much of her work, others have created art with a similar process in mind. One example is Caroline Randall Williamsin her book of poetry titled “Lucy Negro, Redux.” Similar to Hartman, Randall Williams researched historical documents and constructed a narrative base...
Although the style is most commonly used by scholars and published writers, critical fabulation has the potential to make waves among more common and modern media. While it is nearly impossible to fabulate narratives in the same way that authors like Hartman and Randall Williams do without easy access to archives, there are variations to the proces...
Jun 26, 2018 · Whose stories underpin design? And what methods might be possible if designers tell those stories differently? These are the questions I explore in Critical Fabulations, my book out with MIT press...
string figure games of speculative fabulation. Developed especially by black feminist theorists, inter-sectional theory has been an immensely fruitful analytic tool for anti-racist analysis and action and for critical theory and legal theory broadly. See Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence
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With the method of “critical fabulation”, Hartman proposes a reading of the archive that mimes the figurative dimensions of history in order “to tell an impossible story and to amplify the impossibility of its telling,” to reconstruct “what could have been.”. This temporality at the fictional crossroads between past and future wants ...
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Oct 3, 2018 · In the final section, I discuss the Whiteness of mainstream speculative fiction and argue that speculative fabulation must be accountable to situated feminisms in how we read, write, and conduct research.
