Tasha Jasmin Brown

Tasha Jasmin Brown is a Literature major. She will be presenting her senior project titled “’Special Kind of Double’: Sisterhood, Selfhood, Mermaids, and the Bonds of Trauma and Love.”  Toni Morrison states that a sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double. In this project, I examine two Toni Morrison novels, A Mercy and Beloved, to understand the necessities of black sisterhood. While exploring how survival is enabled through sisterhood in fictional narrative and trauma theory, I found that emotional memory, mermaids, water, blood, and milk are significantly important in sisterhood and the mature development of selfhood.