October 16, 2025Global Studies QuarterlyOpen Access

Against Archival Abjection: Black Annotation and Critical Fabulation as Aesthetic-Poetic Interventions into the Violence of the Archive

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LOLouiza OdysseosUniversity of Sussex

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This article examines how Black annotation and critical fabulation resist archival abjection, highlighting implications for understanding colonialism and racialization.

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Archival abjection highlights the complicity of archives in colonialism’s violence, revealing systems of power and authority.
The article identifies two aesthetic methods—Black annotation and critical fabulation—that creatively respond to the harms of the archive.
Hank Willis Thomas’ work is analyzed to demonstrate how artistic interventions seek to undo archival abjection in historical records.
Reparative returns to the archive must acknowledge its role in historical injustices, emphasizing the need for critical engagement.

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Louiza Odysseos (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f0ba59c50c73ebef9fa7d4 https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf081

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This article examines how Black annotation and critical fabulation resist archival abjection, highlighting implications for understanding colonialism and racialization.

Against Archival Abjection: Black Annotation and Critical Fabulation as Aesthetic-Poetic Interventions into the Violence of the Archive

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Against Archival Abjection: Black Annotation and Critical Fabulation as Aesthetic-Poetic Interventions into the Violence of the Archive

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