Filling historical/ archival silences with speculation and haunting
This week is all about ghosts, silences, spectres, and haunting. Eve Tuck and C. Ree's "A Glossary of Haunting" will be provide a theoretical grounding for our discussion, and we'll reflect on how and why they've constructed their text in the ways they did. How do they understanding 'haunting'? Saidiya Hartman's chapter about 'gender-bending' Harlem blues performer, Gladys Bentley will urge us to think about speculation in historical narratives. How can we create stories even in the absence of archival information?
We'll also be picking up from where we ended discussion last week and discuss more about Len & Cub, some other case studies from Duder's Awfully Devoted Women, and Rebecca Primus & Addie Brown.
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🖋 Saidiya Hartman, ”A Note on Method” AND “Mistah Beauty, the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Woman, Select Scenes from a Film Never Cast by Oscar Micheaux, Harlem, 1920s,” in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019), xiii-xv,192-203.
📖 Eve Tuck and C. Ree, “A Glossary of Haunting.” In Handbook of Autoethnography, edited by Stacey Holman Jones, Tony E. Adams, and Carolyn Ellis (Walnut Creek, California, Left Coast Press, Inc.), 639–658.
Click the image below to read " a Glossary of Haunting " via eve tuck's website:
