I am going to write Pip into The Deep by Rivers Solomon. I believe that Herman Melville purposefully delivered Pip to his ancestors in Moby Dick. I can’t stop thinking about the intersection of Pip’s soul lost to the Antilles and the wajinru from the Deep.
Thesis:
In creating a safe space for the descendants of the Middle Passage, The Deep and its predecessors clipping. cultivate a sense of belonging for people whom have lost their terrestrial ties. No longer being tied to their old land and unwelcome in their new, History for descendants of the Middle Passage is easily alterable and erased. Using the ocean as an archive and rebirth gives a voice and reorients descendants that were once victims of an attempted erasure. Including Pip, a free working class American, into the narrative of The Deep adds a layer of connection to the descendants of the Middle Passage.
I gave feedback on the 522 website, but I think here you might want to think about this: “The Deep and its predecessors clipping. cultivate a sense of belonging for people whom have lost their terrestrial ties.” And this: “Using the ocean as an archive and rebirth gives a voice and reorients descendants that were once victims of an attempted erasure.” Certainly this is true of The Deep, but of PIp? Maybe you want to consider the ocean, being abandoned overboard, as the thing that connects the stories– staying very specific and then exploring what is different between then from there. Maybe an idea?