Critical Fabulation

Create your own “critical fabulation.” Hartman turns to fiction and the imagination in the radical absence of slave bodies and voices, weaving together the remnants of conflicting accounts to create a recombinant narrative. Review this week’s excerpt from Lose Your Mother as an example, as well as her presentation of the method in “Venus in Two Acts.”  Then write a “scene” that takes place within the world of your project–one that you have not been able to access directly through your various sources. The scene should convey a vivid sense of place and time, as well as people or other presences. Narrate the events, developing an exchange between subjects or a monologue if only one subject is present.