THP Critical Fabulation to Afrofuturism as a method of Black American theory fiction.
Theory fiction is a type of scholarship that uses fictional writing to explore themes in philosophical and critical theory. Critical Fabulation is a form of theory fiction that imagines the lives of those who have been forgotten by history, particularly in the context of African American slavery. In contrast, Afrofuturism uses science fiction to imagine possibles black futures where progress has overcome oppression.