{"title":"Genres of History and the Practice of Loss: Attending to Silence in Hazel Carby's Imperial Intimacies","authors":"Marisa J. Fuentes","doi":"10.1215/07990537-8912830","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This book discussion essay addresses critical questions concerning historical methodologies when working with the archives of Atlantic-world slavery. Thinking with Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, the essay considers the power of historical memoir to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery's archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response, the essay author revisits her hesitations regarding slavery's archive and the stakes of approaching the silences of enslaved people in the records. Drawing on pivotal work in black feminist studies, this essay rearticulates the nuances of Saidiya Hartman's \"critical fabulation\" to bring attention back to archival boundaries and the limits of historical methodologies that make certain imaginings most difficult.","PeriodicalId":46163,"journal":{"name":"Small Axe","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Small Axe","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912830","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This book discussion essay addresses critical questions concerning historical methodologies when working with the archives of Atlantic-world slavery. Thinking with Hazel V. Carby's Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, the essay considers the power of historical memoir to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery's archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response, the essay author revisits her hesitations regarding slavery's archive and the stakes of approaching the silences of enslaved people in the records. Drawing on pivotal work in black feminist studies, this essay rearticulates the nuances of Saidiya Hartman's "critical fabulation" to bring attention back to archival boundaries and the limits of historical methodologies that make certain imaginings most difficult.
摘要:这本书的讨论文章解决了在处理大西洋世界奴隶制档案时有关历史方法的关键问题。与黑兹尔·v·卡比(Hazel V. Carby)的《帝国亲密关系:两个岛屿的故事》(Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands)一样，这篇文章考虑了历史回忆录通过家庭故事讲述大英帝国暴力的力量。英国和加勒比地区长期交织在一起的历史不可避免地导致了奴隶制的档案，在书的最后一部分，卡比描述了她最早的祖先在牙买加咖啡种植园的生活。作为回应，文章作者重新审视了她对奴隶制档案的犹豫，以及接近记录中被奴役者沉默的利害关系。借鉴黑人女权主义研究的关键工作，本文重新阐述了赛迪亚·哈特曼(Saidiya Hartman)的“批判性虚构”的细微差别，将注意力带回档案边界和历史方法的限制，这些限制使某些想象变得最困难。
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