“Critical to this argument, and worthy of further reflection, is Rafael’s deployment of their own artistic practice to communicate their book’s ideas and to produce a meta-argument about history and method that develops alongside the text, and does work that words alone could never do.”
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“In other words, fragments offer sites of resistance for what the archive refuses to offer us. Given the historical archive’s push toward normative narratives, queer historical tasks such as this require close reading and careful scrutiny of what has been labeled minor. “
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