Jessica Pressman
American literary scholar; professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University and author of Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age and Digital Modernism.
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Their wordsargues that mermaid narratives, including TV shows, are a rich site for eco-criticism and Environmental Humanities.
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Their wordsThe fact that Disney’s portrayal of a nonwhite mermaid is controversial is due to 150 years of whitewashing.
↗Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fictiontheconversation.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsI also hope to put to rest the idea that Disney’s decision to feature a Black mermaid represents some sort of modern breakthrough.
↗Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fictiontheconversation.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsThis novella is marketed as fantasy, but it does the very real and important work of opening up new ways to think about the legacy of slavery.
↗Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fictiontheconversation.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsMermaids serve as signals, in both senses of the word – as an emergency alert and as a medium for transmitting a message about humanity’s increasingly oceanic planetary future.
↗Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fictiontheconversation.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsRacial justice and environmental activism are aligned – and, as many Black mermaid novels teach readers, inseparable.
↗Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fictiontheconversation.com 5th of 5 in this piece