haha, look, i think Flyx is misreading this and i tried the long way to pointing it out to no avail. i think getting stuck on this one statement, at this level of granularity, is missing the entire beauty of Saidiya Hartman's work. this essay is but one chapter of a longer work. i have read the full book and "Lose Your Mother" and i think that gives me a perspective i can't unhave, i just know she is not coming from a place of swerf-ness.
there are other essays available online where Hartman herself explains why she came to this method, they are worth looking at but i can't do them justice, they are better experienced for oneself.
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haha, look, i think Flyx is misreading this and i tried the long way to pointing it out to no avail. i think getting stuck on this one statement, at this level of granularity, is missing the entire beauty of Saidiya Hartman's work. this essay is but one chapter of a longer work. i have read the full book and "Lose Your Mother" and i think that gives me a perspective i can't unhave, i just know she is not coming from a place of swerf-ness.
there are other essays available online where Hartman herself explains why she came to this method, they are worth looking at but i can't do them justice, they are better experienced for oneself.