Those articles ignore the "critical" part, that it's an act of care, creativity and rigor— not something that can be calculated.
A talk with Joy Bivins, Nadifa Mohamed, John R. Keene & Saidiya Hartman. All engage archives, practice "critical fabulation".
Imagining the Past: Resurrected Narratives
In "Silencing the Past" Haitian historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot says "silences" enter the production of history at four moments:
1) the making of sources
2) the making of archives
3) the making of narratives
4) the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance)
