![]() ![]() There’s a dark humor to reading “The Little Mermaid” as a passing narrative-that is, as a parable about a Black person who tries to pass as white. ![]() ![]() The character is left to float above the ocean, belonging nowhere. As for the heroine, the Disney-fied story rewards her virtue by turning her into a “real” woman. The humans thus remained unable to see themselves as clearly as she did, nor did they learn to see anyone else. After years of dwelling on land, the creature became an expert in the ways of people, but her transformation came at a cost: she couldn’t speak. She disguised her natural form, which was beautiful to some and monstrous to others, and travelled far from home. Once, in an undersea kingdom, there lived an odd creature who wished to be human. ![]()
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