Making Mary Ann Waters is a Free Black Woman : Critical Fabrication as Bibliographic Method

2022/08/01 by Kadin Henningsen · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society

paper · doi:10.1353/crt.2022.a899737

openalex publication_date 2022/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/05

Abstract

This article discusses the process of creating an artist’s book on Mary Ann Waters, a Black trans woman and sex worker in Antebellum Baltimore. In addition, informed by the author’s experience of making the artist’s book, he proposes a process of critical fabrication—which brings together Saidiya Hartman’s method of “critical fabulation” with Natalie Loveless’s articulation of “research-creation”—as a method for critical bibliography. (In the issue section "Bibliographic Knowledge(s)")

Discussions

• We also got to chat with @transbookhistory.bsky.social , who brought a an artist’s proof of his book, _ Mary Ann Waters is a Free Black Woman_, & talked about the method of "critical fabulation" he ou [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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