Addressing Missing Perspectives through Critical Fabulation

Alana Joy Okonkwo introduces the concept of critical fabulation, a term coined by Saidiya Hartman in her work Venus in Two Acts. It explores how historical archives often erased the identities and stories of enslaved women, referring to them only as “Venus.” Okonkwo encourages viewers to think critically about whose narratives are preserved, whose perspectives are missing, and how history can be understood through multiple viewpoints.