For my final essay, I am committed to focusing on The Deep. I will focus on the trauma that lingers from history. With that, I will be building off my week thirteen blog post, so my working thesis is based on that and will most likely be changed as I continue writing. The author’s language in her metaphors of cavities, holes, and vessels of Yetu and the wajinru people depicts how knowing history and or lack of knowledge of your history impacts a person. In lieu of some research, from the article “Salvaging Utopia: Lessons for (and from) the Left in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), The Deep (2019), and Sorrowland (2021)” by Megen de Bruin-Molé, there is much to discuss in how history and sharing history in kinship is important not just for the community that is impacted but for those outside that community too. This allows and helps me discuss characters outside of the Wajinru such as Oori.
Mermaids: Literature & the Environment
ECL 305. Fall 2025. Professor Pressman
There is much of interest here. I would like to see you focus a bit more– is this about
“cavities, holes, and vessels” and, if so, what does this language do or why does it matter? Or, are you more interested in this aspect: “there is much to discuss in how history and sharing history in kinship.” If this is your primary point, what kind of history and kinship? If on kinship, you might be interested in _Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals_, and check the slides from our conversation over the last few weeks for other possible citations.