Hartman turns to imagination in the radical absence of slave bodies and voices

  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.