Create your own “critical fabulation.” Hartman turns to imagination in the radical absence of slave bodies and voices. Review the passage I assigned in seminar as an example, as well as your own engagement with it in your group. Then write a “scene” that takes place within the world of your project. The scene should convey a clear sense of time and place, as well as people or other kinds of presence. Narrate the events of this scene, developing a dialogue between subjects or a monologue if only one subject is present. Alternatively, you may produce a form of testimony by one of the figures you conjure, a letter or a diary entry. Please see me if you have questions about how to move forward with other kinds of material.