Understanding experience requires mediating connections across history and social context

Evidence

Experience is neither immanent to itself nor evident to itself, and its determinants can only be conceptualized in weaving connections rather than presuming evanescence. This objective narration visits settings in the past, crafts Black characters in the round accorded by that penetrating and contextualizing omniscience, and plots psychic depth on the axis of social breadth, in realist signature. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 340

Categorization

• XREF: Crystallizes the reader’s own defense of mediation as politically necessary — the theoretical heart of her project. — connects to: Interpretation must translate scholarly findings into visitors’ lived identification — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 319; Counterstories of lived experience can serve as a first step toward conscientization — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 465