"One can only go for so long without asking who am I?
Where do I come from? What does all this mean? What
is being? What came before me, and what might come
after? Without answers, there is only a hole, a hole where
a history should be that takes the shape of an endless
longing."
As someone who has recently gotten into Afrofuturism, this book sounds exceptionally interesting. I am a fan of Rivers Solomon, and I read their novel An Unkindness of Ghosts previously. Although their works are very different from each other, they both discuss the legacies of enslavement and how they perpetuate throughout time.
The Deep is about the wajinru, a group of merpeople descended from the bodies of pregnant women who were thrown off of slave ships. The wajinru serve as a physical embodiment of the traumas of slavery. Yetu, the protagonist, serves as her pod's historian. Her responsibility is to remember the entire history of both the wajinru and the enslaved people they descend from, and to share those memories with her people.
I want to learn more about why Yetu is more sensitive to the memories of the past than the historians that preceded her and how the Remembrance ceremony operates. How does the past that Yetu perceives influence her present?
The cover of the book is gorgeous, it shows the danger and beauty of life under the sea.
Where do I come from? What does all this mean? What
is being? What came before me, and what might come
after? Without answers, there is only a hole, a hole where
a history should be that takes the shape of an endless
longing."
As someone who has recently gotten into Afrofuturism, this book sounds exceptionally interesting. I am a fan of Rivers Solomon, and I read their novel An Unkindness of Ghosts previously. Although their works are very different from each other, they both discuss the legacies of enslavement and how they perpetuate throughout time.
The Deep is about the wajinru, a group of merpeople descended from the bodies of pregnant women who were thrown off of slave ships. The wajinru serve as a physical embodiment of the traumas of slavery. Yetu, the protagonist, serves as her pod's historian. Her responsibility is to remember the entire history of both the wajinru and the enslaved people they descend from, and to share those memories with her people.
I want to learn more about why Yetu is more sensitive to the memories of the past than the historians that preceded her and how the Remembrance ceremony operates. How does the past that Yetu perceives influence her present?
The cover of the book is gorgeous, it shows the danger and beauty of life under the sea.